Photo: Miros Photography / Flickr
A beautiful tale about how Cape Town fought back.
Photo: Miros Photography / Flickr
Thanks to Cape Town Magazine, we have been given the opportunity to showcase the latest aerial views of the rising dam levels.
Two months ago, the Mother City was reeling in the wake of the uncertainty surrounding Day Zero. People were called on to abide by very strict water restrictions, with hundreds of Capetonians having to fall in long lines to get a limited supply of water for daily usage.
Winter has come and it has brought, along with it, a new hope for Cape Town. The amount of rainfall the city has experienced so far is an answer to every Capetonian’s prayer: avoid Day Zero at any cost.
As of 29 June 2018, dam levels have been the highest since 2015.
Cape Town Magazine took it to the skies with Cape Town Helicopters and videographer Craig Kolesky to give us a more detailed, visual look at the status of the dams.
In this moving video, viewers are taken on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, when the images of the beloved Mother Cty’s water supply were of an impending drought crisis.
The video then shows us how things look now and it starts off with a beautiful sight of the upper Steenbras Dam that is 94.8% full, a 34% increase from the situation in 2017. It then takes us on to a beautiful montage of the rest of the dams, which look promising.
Dams like the Theewaterskloof Dam, which, by hectares, is one of the largest water suppliers of the Western Cape, is already 30.4% full compared to 18.6% in 2017.
This week, the Western Cape government issued a notice that Day Zero will no longer occur in 2019. Although it may be that Cape Town has averted a water crisis, people have been asked to maintain the same restrictive habits.