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☆ Water trickling and taps running dry are part of daily life in South Africa’s biggest city
  + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +6 min
It’s ironic, because Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city, has plenty of water at the moment — authorities and water companies just can’t seem to get it to where it’s needed. South Africa is naturally dry, and the climate crisis has hit the nation many times with crippling drought. “But there have been multiple times where we’ve been without water for five, seven days,” he said. Ravin Singh founded the Water Crisis Committee civic group last September, after his neighborhood northeast of downtown Johannesburg was suddenly hit with prolonged outages. Now Joburgers also talk about “water shedding.”But Singh concedes that people could be doing more to lower water consumption, voluntarily.
Persons: Duane Riley, we’ve, I’ve, ” Riley, Joburgers, ”, Riley, “, Ravin Singh, Singh, “ Young, ” Singh, Senzo Mchunu, Mchunu, Rand Water Organizations: Johannesburg CNN, South Africa’s, CNN, Getty, Water, Sanitation, Johannesburg Water, Rand, Cape Town Locations: Johannesburg, South, Africa, Southern Africa, Soweto, Kensington, Blairgowrie, AFP, City, Ekurhuleni, South Africa, African, Cape
☆ Cape Town, blanketed by a 'foul' stench, realized the smell came from a ship with 19,000 cattle docked in its harbor
  + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
An 'unimaginable' sewage stench hit the city of Cape Town on Monday. Residents in the city said it was one of the worst smells they had ever experienced. Officials investigating the terrible smell discovered that it was coming from a ship with 19,000 cattle. AdvertisementThe South African capital of Cape Town woke up on Monday morning to a heavy, sewage-like stench that city officials later discovered came from a docked ship carrying 19,000 live cattle. Multiple media outlets, citing people living in the city, described it as one of the worst smells residents had ever experienced.
Persons: — Organizations: Residents, Service, BBC, Business Locations: Cape Town, Cape
☆ Five killed in South Africa's Cape Town amid taxi strike
  + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
CAPE TOWN, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by mini-bus taxi drivers that began last week turned violent, authorities said on Tuesday. The South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) announced a one-week provincial shutdown last Thursday after failing to resolve various issues with the local government in Cape Town. "In Cape Town, violence will never be tolerated as a negotiating tactic. We reiterate our call on SANTACO to return peacefully to the negotiation table," said Cape Town city mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis. Reporting by Esa Alexander in Cape Town and Catherine Schenck in Johannesburg; Additional reporting by Wendell Roelf; Writing by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Mark PotterOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Bheki Cele, Hill, Lewis, SANTACO, Esa Alexander, Catherine Schenck, Wendell Roelf, Bhargav Acharya, Mark Potter Organizations: South, National Taxi Council, Thomson Locations: CAPE, African, Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Johannesburg
☆ From swimming pools to gardening, the rich's privileged lifestyles are driving urban water crises, study says
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Published in the Nature Sustainability journal this week, the peer-reviewed research looked at the South African city of Cape Town, which has experienced severe drought in recent years. For the study, researchers split Cape Town's urban population into five social groupings and then modeled water consumption. "Informal dwellers and lower-income households constitute together 61.5% of Cape Town's population but consume a mere 27.3% of the city's water." "Specifically, privileged water consumption is unsustainable because in the short term, it disproportionally uses the water available for the entire urban population." Longer term, the report described what it called privileged consumption as constituting an environmental threat to the status of local water sources.
☆ South African cities scramble to keep the lights on
  + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Carien Du Plessis | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
Officials plan to procure up to 500 megawatts (MW) from private power companies by 2026 to provide roughly a third of the city's annual 1,500-1,800 megawatts (MW) electricity needs. [1/5] A woman tests LED lights on a solar panel at their factory called Ener-G-Africa, where they produce high-quality solar panels made by an all-women team, in Cape Town, South Africa, February 9, 2023. The neighbouring Ekurhuleni municipality has signed deals with 46 private power companies for 700 MW, according to its 2020/2021 annual report. Hill-Lewis said Cape Town also plans to change its energy policy to allow households and businesses that produce solar power to sell the excess to the city. In Cape Town, for those wanting to sell excess power to the city, a 12,000 rand feed-in meter is required.
☆ The 7 cities you 'must visit before you die,' according to 50 travel experts—only one is in the U.S.
  + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Sharael Kolberg | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +6 min
As travel journalist of over 20 years, I recently interviewed more than 50 travel enthusiasts, experts and agents. New York City, U.S.Jonathan de Araujo, owner of The Vacationeer Travel Agency, calls the Big Apple "a city of superlatives." Just a short walk from the 9/11 Museum, New York City tourists can take a ferry to visit the Statue of Liberty. "It's now as much a part of New York City history as the Statue of Liberty," he says. Cape Town, South AfricaTom Marchant, founder of luxury travel company Black Tomato, calls Cape Town "the perfect destination for thrill seekers."
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