What Cape Town can learn from Australia's millennium drought

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 In December 2017, Seona Candy drove through the vineyards of the Franschhoek Valley near Cape Town towards the banks of the Sonderend river. In the late 1970s, the waterway was dammed to create the biggest reservoir in South Africa's Western Cape. Behind the thick walls of the Theewaterskloof dam lay the capacity to hold 480 million cubic metres of water, nearly half of Cape Town's water supply."When I got there, it was mostly dust," Candy says. Continue reading...