{"id":4777,"date":"2019-08-21T09:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"relief-as-cape-town-water-levels-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/21\/relief-as-cape-town-water-levels-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief As Cape Town Water Levels Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By BBC NEWS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dams supplying the South African city of Cape Town are\nnow 81% full, a year after a chronic water shortage almost forced officials to\ncut the supply off entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/cape-town-dam-levels-now-at-817-20190819\">At this time last year, the level was just 53%<\/a>, News24 reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents have been praised for limiting their daily\nconsumption of water, with current guidelines&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetown.gov.za\/Family%20and%20home\/residential-utility-services\/residential-water-and-sanitation-services\/Residential-water-restrictions-explained\">banning\nmotorists from using hosepipes to wash their cars<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Predictions show that rainfall will decrease further over the years to come. We must, therefore, continue to use water wisely,&#8221; the local government representative for environmental affairs, Anton Bredell, told reporters. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/live\/world-africa-47639452?ns_mchannel=social&amp;ns_source=twitter&amp;ns_campaign=bbc_live&amp;ns_linkname=5d5bbed1169570066e5112ad%26Relief%20as%20Cape%20Town%20water%20levels%20rise%262019-08-20T10%3A41%3A17.608Z&amp;ns_fee=0&amp;pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:d4ca3b51-0faf-4e39-b0a4-1df0a1948372&amp;pinned_post_asset_id=5d5bbed1169570066e5112ad&amp;pinned_post_type=share\">Read more<\/a> on BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BBC NEWS Dams supplying the South African city of Cape Town are now 81% full, a year after a chronic water shortage almost forced officials to cut the supply&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}