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What Happens When Cape Town Runs Out of Water? | Short Film Showcase


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·Nov 11, 2024

I think the question on everyone's minds is: how did Cape Town get here? 2013, which was only five years ago, we had the record rainfall year where lots and lots of water dams were full. In 2014, we had a drop in those dams. When we got to the 1st of October, which is the end of the rainy season, in 2015, we had dams at 78 percent; in 2016, there were 58 percent; in 2017, there were 38 percent. Who knows what they're going to be at the end of 2018? This year's rainy [Music] [Music].

What does it look like when the chaps around John? 10,000 people running down a highway, burning tires, stopping traffic to protest at the fact that they're not getting their service delivery? Airports being cut off, tourism closing down, people choosing not to visit here, unemployment shooting through the roof. Petroleum closing down, the harbour closing down; ships can't come here, they can't get refills of water, and that's what they come here for—apart from offloading and unloading.

Mass exodus of the people who can afford to move out means that much of this money gets spent in the center. It is a catastrophe, and we gotta start using the right wording. It's a catastrophe; it's not a crisis. A crisis is a temporary "whoops." A catastrophe is when the police are moving into the distribution points, the army is moving into the distribution points, your water will be given to you with the protection of a gun. That's heavy stuff; that's a completely different scenario.

So it's an Armageddon scenario. We cannot afford to get to that place any way in the world, and this is an absolute disaster. When she said to me that, "Oh, that is the perfect time for one party $2 for my main information that we're nationally do to me," it's not helping anybody [Music] to the scientific community very well [Music].

We've been through so much in this country; it's a hard life. We've come from a difficult part, the gang, and a difficult future. It might just be that no water or very little water or zero water is the thing that actually brings us together [Music].

The rest of the world will look to Cape Town for what we did wrong, our doing wrong, and what we did right, and our doing right. That will be the blueprint going forward for eternity [Music].

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