Why Is Cape Town Running Out Of Water? | NowThis World

Cape Town, South Africa, is home to 4 million people who get their water from six major reservoirs. Those reservoirs are drying up quickly and pushing Cape Town closer to Day Zero. Why exactly is Cape Town running out of water?
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this should serve as a wake-up call to local and national governments around the world. Cape Town isn’t the first city to suffer severe water shortages - more than 800 cities across Brazil entered a state of emergency just last year after millions were forced to ration water, for many of the same reasons that led Cape Town to this point.

And it won’t be the last city, either.

Climate scientists are warning the international community that water crises are inevitable as the effects of climate change and urbanization build up.

So will local governments look to Cape Town as a cautionary lesson to prepare for the future - or will other cities soon face their own Day Zeroes?

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