The Western Cape has been declared a disaster area after experiencing its worst drought in the last century. The City of Cape Town last experienced a drought between 2004-2005, and while it did implement precautionary measures, the extent of this drought has never been experienced before.

Mayco member for utilities Xanthea Limberg says last year the city was consuming over 1.2 billion litres of water a day. A year later, the city has reduced its daily consumption to 710 million litres a day.

She said most importantly was to look at the water consumption across the entire Western Cape Supply Scheme as Cape Town only uses 40% of the water in the provincial system.

Source: News24