Cape Townâs temporary desalination plants online âFebruary 2018â . South Africa – Cape Town ⊠After yesterdayâs rains across the metropole, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille briefed media, and Twitter, on updates regarding its water resilience scheme. The scheme aims to âavoid a time when users do not have access to municipal drinking waterâ, de Lille explained. âIn terms of our Water Resilience Plan to augment supply with schemes, we are expecting the first water to come online by Dec 2017 /Jan 2018,â she tweeted. The plan intends to add an additional 500-million litres per day to Cape Townâs water supply by using natural springs, aquifers, and desalination. The latter, however, wonât [âŠ] Cape Townâs temporary desalination plants online âFebruary 2018â . South Africa – Cape TownDME GmbH2017-10-04T15:54:55+02:00
Tender to produce extra 500Ml of water for Cape Town – South Africa ⊠âOur intent is to both drive down collective usage to 500Ml per day and to ensure that there is always at 500Ml/day of water in production,â Mayor Patricia de Lille told reporters on Thursday. She said the city had decided to take the most pessimistic view of the drought, and hoped to have the first desalination plant on line by the end of October. The city had reduced water consumption from around 1000Ml a day in the past year to the latest figure of 610Ml a day. This was still too much, given the poor prospects of [âŠ] Tender to produce extra 500Ml of water for Cape Town – South AfricaDME GmbH2017-08-21T09:25:00+02:00
“We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,” said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis. De Lille plans to write to Western Cape Environment MEC Anton Bredell, asking for the city to be declared a disaster area, so that it can institute emergency measures. âCrisisâ Â These would include treating waste water even further to put it in the potable system, drawing water from the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and the Cape Flats Aquifer, and in the long term, an ambitious R15bn desalination project with Eskom that would cost R1.2bn in operating expenditure (LINK). “We have 121 days left of usable water in our dams,” said De Lille at a briefing to drive home the city’s water crisis.DME GmbH2017-02-28T21:27:39+01:00