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How Cape Town beat the drought

Geoff Riley

3rd May 2018

Here is a special long read from the FT on how Cape Town has - for now at least - managed to avoid the very worst of the drought crisis. Cape Town residents more than halved their use of water during the past three years of drought.

Cape Town was on the verge of becoming the first major urban centre to run out of water this year. But South Africa’s second city managed to avert the crisis.

Here’s how it was done: https://t.co/csjc7GD17M pic.twitter.com/FDsfD2KPkB
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 3, 2018

To avoid the city turning completely dry, Cape Town residents more than halved their use of water during the past three years of drought. ‘People didn’t like being treated like naughty children. But it worked.’

Read more: https://t.co/csjc7GD17M pic.twitter.com/j18GeAWyF7
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) May 3, 2018

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.

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