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South Africa: No Day Zero for 2019 - City of Cape Town
News24Wire, 28 June 2018
The City of Cape Town has announced that the dreaded Day Zero - the day when most of the taps will be turned off - will not happen in 2018 or 2019. Read more »
Cape Town Executive Deputy Mayor Alderman Ian Neilson has said that the dreaded Day Zero - the day when most of the taps will be turned off - will not happen in 2018 or 2019. However, the announcement comes as, depite promising winter rains, the city remains in a state of drought with level 6B water restrictions still in place.
Storm clouds in the skies above Table Mountain in Cape Town (file photo).
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