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Cape Town Water Crisis


The City of Cape Town has implemented Level 6 Water Restrictions, effective from 1 January 2018 until further notice.

This restriction affects the City of Cape Town only, as follows:

  • Residential units are limited to consumption of 10 500 litres per month, failing which, devices will be installed to help reduce their usage.
  • All Hotels and Lodges have responded to the crisis by means of implementing water-saving practises, which both staff and guests are aware of and fully support. These water-saving measures include removing bath plugs from the hotel bathrooms, meaning all patrons may only shower; less frequent linen and towel changes; replacing linen serviettes with paper serviettes in the restaurants; and installing water tanks on the hotel premises. John van Rooyen, Operations Director for the Cape Region at Tsogo Sun, says that in addition to the afore-mentioned water saving measures, the Tsogo Sun Hotel Group ‘Introduced a monitoring system called station seven, which checks consumption levels of hotels by the hour. I must say all hotels have come to the party.

    Added to this, Jeff Rosenberg, Head of the Federated Hospitality Association of South Africa, (the country’s leading trade organization for the hospitality industry) has said ‘Other than a small minority of travellers who complain, the reception has been overwhelmingly understanding. I think people actually get quite a bit of pleasure from feeling like they’re making a contribution.’
  • Non-residential properties to reduce consumption by 45%
  • Agricultural users to reduce consumption by 60%

In addition to measures being taken to conserve water, given that dam levels have an average of 29% capacity, drilling equipment will start arriving this week to extract water from aquifers on the Cape Flats and the Table Mountain. The availability of water has been confirmed in these areas and the aquifers are expected to produce an extra 80 million litres per day from The Cape Flats aquifer and 40 million litres per day from the Table Mountain aquifer. Extraction of water is already underway in Atlantis town, with about 30 million litres of water per day expected. Treated waste water, which will be clean by the time it is released into wetlands for further filtration, will be used to replenish the aquifers.

It is important to remember, that level 6 water restrictions are limited to city of Cape Town only, while surrounding areas have not imposed the same level of water restrictions and guests travelling to these areas are mostly unaffected. We are not concerned at this stage as contingencies have been put in place as mentioned above, and we do not expect the taps to be turned off, as per the threat of Day Zero approaching, if all plans of action in place at the moment, are carried out.


Kind regards,

Alessandra Allemann
Chief Executive Officer
Thompsons Africa
Tel: +27 31 275 3500

 
 
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