The Helen Zille and Musi Maimane road show on the issue is designed to shift all the blame to the national government. COSATU called the City of Cape Town and both the provincial and national government to Nedlac to discuss this issue, when we first heard of it. The City of Cape Town and the Provincial Administration did not take the discussions seriously, which could have saved us many millions of liters of water if it was responded to timeously. They failed to do the following when the crisis was indisputable:
Get desalination plants up and running as soon as possible, every day a plant provides water it reduces the use of rain water.
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