Slight increase in dam levels

THE City of Cape Town has announced that there has been a slight increase in dam levels of 0.5% as a result of some rainfall and lower evaporation rates. Dam levels now stand at 21.4%. “We need to continue to stretch the remaining water in our dams as we simply do not know how much rain we will receive over the winter months,” acting mayor Ian Neilson said.

He said that as of yesterday morning, dams were just 0.1% below the water supply level on the same day last year. He announced that the City’s collective consumption over the past week was 554 million litres of water per day. This is a 6.7% increase from consumption of 519 million litres last week.

“We do know that the majority of our water users are doing their best to lower usage to 50 litres per day to get to the requirement of 450 million litres, but there may be a bit of complacency creeping in,” Neilson said.

He urged residents to continue saving water. He said the City was working around the clock to help keep Day Zero away.

“In addition, the water resilience programme, which is saving approximately 52 million litres of water per day, will bring more of our augmentation projects online over the coming months.

“However, we still do not know how much rainfall we are likely to receive over the winter season, so we simply cannot afford to relax our savings efforts,” Neilson said.– Staff Reporter

WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD TO RELAX OUR SAVING EFFORTS