Below-average rainfall since 2020 has Spain’s Catalonia region bracing for severe water restrictions as dams and reservoirs run dry.
Water officials of Cape Town are asking residents to still make water-wise decisions despite our dams flourishing at more than 90% full.
Although it may be too early to actually panic, it is probably necessary to sound the initial alarm to avoid yet another Day Zero like the one experienced in 2018.
Over the next decade, the City of Cape Town has big plans to ensure that future droughts don’t result in the same panic as that which we saw a few years back.