Site preparation for the Monwabisi desalination plant has kicked off in Cape Town as the City prepares projects to bring additional water supply online to combat the unprecedented drought. The Monwabisi desalination plant is one of seven projects earmarked for development in the first phase of the City’s Additional Water Supply Programme. Xanthea Limberg, the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Informal Settlements, Water and Waste Services; and Energy says they anticipate that the Monwabisi plant will produce a total of 7 million litres of drinking water per day which will be fed into the water reticulation system to supplement current supply from the dams and other water sources.
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