People are restricted to just a fraction of the typical amount of water. From showering in buckets to wearing dirty laundry, here’s how they’re coping.
Cities all over the world are facing growing challenges to provide clean, reliable water. And many of the fixes, such as desalination plants, have a huge carbon footprint.
As Day Zero looms and the South African city gets set to run out of water, experts say lessons learned during Melbourne's brush with a similar fate may help avert a global crisis.
South Africa's drought-stricken city of Cape Town has pushed back its estimate for "Day Zero," when residents will have to start queuing for water, to May 11 from April 16, authorities said on Monday, citing a decline in agricultural water usage.
It might not seem like it right now, but the drought that has hit Cape Town and surrounding areas‚ officially the worst in recorded history‚ has done us all some good.
Life in Cape Town during a historic drought