The good news is that the City of Cape Town has brought an additional seven million litres of water per day online in the past few months. The bad news is that this is a little more than 1% of Cape Town's daily consumption of about 600 million litres.
Two million litres comes from the Molteno Reservoir in Oranjezicht. The other five million litres come from the Atlantis and Silwerstroom aquifers.
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