National water dept, City of Cape Town differ on water consumption level for next year
The national Department of Water and Sanitation has ruled that Cape Town needs to cut water consumption by only 10% for the year starting in December.
This comes just days after the City of Cape Town announced that residents would need to cut consumption by a much bigger 30% for the coming year.
But, in spite of the national department’s announcement, the City has said it is not going to change its more conservative decision in the near future in order to avoid getting back to the Day Zero-type crisis Cape Town faced last summer. Instead, it will adopt a wait-and-see approach.
Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson expressed surprise that the national department had set water savings as low as 10% – a big step down from the 45% savings the department had set for the past year.
Source: news24.com
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