POLITICAL NEWS - The immense challenge of the province’ s longest drought on record will test the capabilities at all levels of government to their limits, Western Cape Premier Helen Zille said during her state of the province address on Thursday.
Addressing the provincial parliament, Zille said: “While addressing a provincial state of disaster, declared in May 2017, we also had to continue delivering on our core constitutional mandates.
"This is not a normal drought. Hydrologists analysing rainfall records as far back as they go have calculated that a severe three-year drought in the Western Cape has a 25% chance of occurring.”
The devastating drought that has affected Cape Town and other areas of the Western Cape has led to the implementation of severe water restrictions and the possibility of Day Zero when the city’s taps are switched off.
In February, the City of Cape Town implemented Level 6B restrictions, limiting residents to 50 litres of water per person per day.
The City of Cape Town on Tuesday announced that water-saving efforts by residents had led to Day Zero being further moved to July 9 from June 4.
