{"id":29906,"date":"2018-01-19T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2018-01-19T08:33:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T13:33:44","slug":"hell-on-earth-major-city-will-run-out-of-water-in-less-than-95-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29906","title":{"rendered":"Hell On Earth: Major City Will RUN OUT Of Water In Less Than 95 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/hell-on-earth-major-city-will-run-out-of-water-in-less-than-95-days_01182018\">Hell On Earth: Major City Will RUN OUT Of Water In Less Than 95 Days<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45526\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AdobeStock_57833878-e1510062313594.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AdobeStock_57833878-e1510062313594.jpg 560w, http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AdobeStock_57833878-e1510062313594-300x152.jpg 300w\" alt=\"earthquake drought natural disaster\" width=\"560\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever needed a reason to store extra food and water, this just might be it.\u00a0 Cape Town, South Africa is on schedule to run out of water in less than 95 days, and when they do, the government will turn off the taps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only 95 days left before we reach Day Zero,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetown.gov.za\/Media-and-news\/Cape%20Town%20residents%20must%20reduce%20consumption%20to%20avoid%20Day%20Zero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the City of Cape Town\u00a0announced on January 15 in a<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetown.gov.za\/Media-and-news\/Cape%20Town%20residents%20must%20reduce%20consumption%20to%20avoid%20Day%20Zero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cDay Zero has moved a day closer this week to April 21, 2018. <strong>Day Zero is when the City will be forced to turn off most of the taps.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The coastal South African city has been battling droughts for nearly three years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/environment\/cape-town-might-soon-become-the-first-city-in-the-world-to-run-out-of-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amounting to the worst one in their history.<\/a>\u00a0With little rain on the horizon, <strong>the city has now ordered its 3.7 million residents to drastically cut their water consumption,<\/strong> take short stop-start showers, not wash their cars, and flush toilets as little as possible. If they don\u2019t, all of their taps could be shut off by the government in April.<\/p>\n<p>The city doesn\u2019t appear to have any plan in place for such a SHTF event. But if the government cannot find a solution to the problem, Capetonians will be forced into \u201cbread lines\u201d for water.<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5103259\/cape-town-water-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> As if that isn\u2019t scary enough<\/a>, city residents will have a limit of 5.5 gallons of water a day that will only be given to them at specific government outposts around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Town\u2019s mayor Patricia de Lille\u200f\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatriciaDeLille\/status\/951458259805917184\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>: \u201cI cannot stress it enough: all residents must save water and use less than 87 liters [19 gallons] per day\u2026 We must avoid Day Zero and saving water is the only way we can do this.\u201d Not missing the opportunity to levy extra taxes on the populace, the city mayor has also impeded a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetown.gov.za\/City-Connect\/Have-your-say\/Issues-open-for-public-comment\/comment-on-the-drought-charge\/Comment%20on%20the%20drought%20charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cdrought charge\u201d<\/a>\u00a0in order to fund new water projects, such as constructing desalination plants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hell On Earth: Major City Will RUN OUT Of Water In Less Than 95 Days If you\u2019ve ever needed a reason to store extra food and water, this just might be it.\u00a0 Cape Town, South Africa is on schedule to run out of water in less than 95 days, and when they do, the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[18009,18008,379,6489,6490,3701,866,4117,4628,4490],"class_list":["post-29906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-cape-town","tag-day-zero","tag-government","tag-mac-slavo","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-south-africa","tag-water","tag-water-consumption","tag-water-restrictions","tag-water-scarcity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29907,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions\/29907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}