South Africa: Time and Money - Two Major Obstacles in Tackling Cape Town's Water Crisis

Desalination plants and other plans - which are in the pipeline for Cape Town to help alleviate the water crisis - will probably cost the city billions of rand, and it is not yet clear where this money will come from.

Another possibly hampering factor could be the time it will take to construct these facilities.

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