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Cape Town water crisis: 'My wife doesn't shower any more'
BBC ^ | 3-7-18

Posted on 03/07/2018 5:18:14 PM PST by SJackson

Cape Town water crisis: 'My wife doesn't shower any more'


People have been forced to queue for extra water to top up their rations in Cape Town

The BBC's Mohammed Allie is one of millions of people trying to stave off Day Zero - the day the taps in the South African city of Cape Town will run dry. Here, he tells us what life is like when you have just 50 litres of water a day.

My wife does not use the shower any more. Instead, she boils about 1.5 litres of water and mixes it with about a litre of tap water to have her daily wash while the rest of us catch the slow running water in a bucket for re-use in the toilet cistern.

As for flushing, which in the past would have used around six litres at a time, we have adopted the popular slogan: "If it's yellow let it mellow and if it's brown flush it down."

Like most residents of Cape Town, my household of four has had to change our habits to conserve water. A bucket and jug have now become essential tools for me and my children when taking a quick two-minute shower.

In the height of summer, it doesn't feel like much.


In Mohammed Allie's house, daughter Khadeeja helps fill the toilet cistern with recycled water - while he drinks water from a container A severe drought has forced the city's municipality to limit water consumption to 50 litres per person per day in an effort to delay what has become known as Day Zero, which has been set for 12 April, when the water supply will be shut.

It isn't easy to reduce to just 50 litres a day per person

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: capetown; water; watercrisis
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Can't locate it, but I posted an article not long ago about how Capetown officials proudly refused to meet with Zionist companies who, well, make fresh water out of seawater. Capetown has seawater. Sorry that Mohammed's wife can't shower.
1 posted on 03/07/2018 5:18:14 PM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

They’ve punished themselves with their own hate.


2 posted on 03/07/2018 5:22:20 PM PST by LYDIAONTARIO
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To: SJackson

Sounds like a chithole.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 5:23:01 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (The government cannot protect you and isn't even trying. Self-defense is a right.)
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To: SJackson

Yup, and they want to confiscate the land of white farmers and turn South Africa back into a shithole.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 5:24:02 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: SJackson; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON; raygunfan; Larry Lucido; Gamecock

Ah, the Jews and their water, eh?

You know who invented Astroturf? The Jews!!! - George Costanza as Donald O’Brien

The Jews hate grass! They always have.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5n_YUBQIYQ


5 posted on 03/07/2018 5:24:17 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SJackson

South Africa is in a race to see what it can be most like first: Mad Max, Dune, or The Killing Fields.


6 posted on 03/07/2018 5:24:32 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives don't care about quality. Progressives only care about appearances.)
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To: SJackson

What California will be like when the feds cut off their access to water from out-of-state.


7 posted on 03/07/2018 5:26:34 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: SJackson

Looks like they’re making Africa Africa again.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 5:26:58 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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South Africa was, not all that long ago, as BIG of a supporter of Israel, as could be found anywhere.

Now, what with the anti-Semitism,no-show jobs for blacks, putting well connected ANC blacks in charge of the water stuff, they truly ARE going to be without potable water.

9 posted on 03/07/2018 5:27:00 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Well that’s what happens when you put the Amish in charge


10 posted on 03/07/2018 5:28:58 PM PST by technically right
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Kick the white farmers off their productive land and see what you get, “equality and starvation”


11 posted on 03/07/2018 5:34:10 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: SJackson

...”If it’s yellow let it mellow and if it’s brown flush it down”...

That sounds strangely racist.


12 posted on 03/07/2018 5:34:44 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: technically right

Muslims: destroying civilization since the days of Mohammed.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 5:35:37 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: SJackson

They could dig a beach well:

https://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/04/20/how-to-find-water-in-the-wild/


14 posted on 03/07/2018 5:35:56 PM PST by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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To: technically right

I don’t think the ANC is any different than non-Amish violent Socialists.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 5:39:20 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Cicero

Mohammedans didn’t destroy South Africa. Black racist communists destroyed South Africa.


16 posted on 03/07/2018 5:41:16 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: mkleesma

Or go swimming


17 posted on 03/07/2018 5:45:31 PM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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To: Sasparilla

Ouch. You’re right.


18 posted on 03/07/2018 5:46:08 PM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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To: Ouderkirk

“...turn South Africa back into a shithole.”

Shouldn’t take much effort to do that.


19 posted on 03/07/2018 5:46:42 PM PST by Carriage Hill ( Life is simpler, when you plow around the stump.)
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To: libertylover

Might make a great hat


20 posted on 03/07/2018 5:47:18 PM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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