DA dilly-dallying

IT IS with great frustration that most Capetonians are looking at an ever growing crisis in our city, and apparently nothing is being done by local or even national government to solve the problem.

We will become the first major international city to run out of water by mid-April if nothing is done to very quickly get the aquifers working and the desalination plants up and running.

Plans to build desalination plants should have been in process more than two years ago, but local officials think rain will just fall as usual.

The local DA administration is proving to be just as useless and inept as the ANC-run rest of the country.

All we read about is the DA infighting, when in fact major crises like water and the Metrorail system are not resolved.

Your paper should be reporting daily on the state of affairs of water collection from other sources and investigating when, and if, desalination plants are coming on stream .

We sit on a huge coastline with more water than we could ever use, and the expertise locally i.e. Grahamtek in the Strand, who could build these projects.

Are the ANC just holding back funds to prove a political point, and what are the DA doing about insisting on the funds being made available?

Another point Theewaterskloof dam is 15% full; it has more than 50% of our local dam capacity.

Now that it is almost dry, why are we not doing major work to deepen this very shallow and silted-up facility to enable it to hold more water for the rainy months – as usual nobody is thinking out of the box.

It is high time we start withholding our local taxes until some real action is taken. Chris Bennett Rondebosch