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The Western and Eastern Cape in Southern Africa are at risk as a result of climate change. The regional farming areas surrounding metropolitan Cape Town and metropolitan Mandela Bay face water insecurity. As a result, these city areas have been required to restrict their water usage. A range of NGOs and some farmers in the Western Cape made donations of water. For example, some of the farmers released water from their private dams, in order to help residents in the city area.
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How will day Zero work? Don’t ask the City of Cape Town. Times Live, 20 January 2018.
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Evans, 2018, 5th Feb Fruit farmers opening sluices for Cape Town. Newa 24. Https://www.news24.com/South Africa/News/fruit-farmers-opening-sluices-for-cape town-2018025.
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Hygiene biggest worry in water crisis Echo Thursday 25 January 2018.
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Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Republic of South Africa. Water and Sanitation Business: The roles and responsibilities of local government and related institutions, dwa.gov.za.
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Department of Water Affairs and Forestry, Republic of South Africa. Water and Sanitation Business: The roles and responsibilities of local government and related institutions, dwa.gov.za.
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J.P. Smith answers Day Zero questions: “it’s going to be really unpleasant’. News 24.
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Helen Zille speaks on Cape Town water crisis—youtube. 22 January.
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J.P. Smith answers Day Zero questions: “it’s going to be really unpleasant’. News 24.
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Water woes: Maimane, Zille shift blame to Nomvula Mokonyane, News 24.
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Our mandate for water provision and support knows no politics- Nomvula Mokonyane, News 24.
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Ramaphosa to put together team to mitigate Cape Town’s Day Zero crisis. News 24.
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J.P. Smith answers Day Zero questions: “it’s going to be really unpleasant’. News 24.
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Gift of the Givers sets up 59 water drop-off points across South Africa for drought-stricken Cape Town. News 24.
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Herman, P. 2018. ‘Water crisis: De Lille’s powers limited, tariffs to be introduced’. News 24, 19 January.
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African Independent, ‘Cape Town’s map of water usage has residents seeing red’, 19 January 2018.
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African Independent, ‘Cape Town’s map of water usage has residents seeing red’, 19 January 2018.
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‘City of Cap Town withdraws drought levy proposal’. New 24, 19 January.
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Cape Town water crisis: WWF helps you understand the basics. News 24, 19 January 2018.
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‘France offers Western Cape help with drought’. News 24, 13 December.
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‘Tempers fray at Cape Town water collection point’. 25 December, 2018, News 24.
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Du Preez, Y. and Williams, M. 2018. From threat to imminent crisis. 25 January Echo pg. 4.
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Kotze, K 2018 ‘Lock up your waters’, Echo page 3.
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De Wet (2018) ‘As of noon on Monday, virtually every domestic borehole user in the Western Cape started to break a rule that was, at the time, less than 72 hours old. While the potential consequences for these residential users are neither clear nor seem imminent, existing rules mean their agricultural counterparts could face up to 5 years in jail for the same breach. And though the department of water and sanitation says, it is not looking to send anyone to prison just yet that may not help when it comes to future disaster relief’.https://mg.co.za/article/2018-01-18-tough-new-regulations-hit-western-cape-borehole-users.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SLXByr1ax18 in 18 January Real News.
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Du Preez, Y. and Williams, M. 2018. From threat to imminent crisis. 25 January Echo pg 4.
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Du Preez, Y. and Williams, M. 2018. From threat to imminent crisis. 25 January Echo pg 4.
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Du Preez, Y. and Williams, M. 2018. From threat to imminent crisis. 25 January Echo pg. 4.
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Water usage dash board www.capetown.gov.za/dayzerodashboard and water.restrictions@capetown.gov.za.
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Meanwhile habitat loss leads to confrontations. For example, in Cape Town the local baboon troops are competing with residents on the side of the mountain in Murdoch Valley (Jeranji, 16 January 2018):
‘Dodger was a young dispersing male from the Slangkop troop who first showed up in the Da Gama troop home range in October. Dispersing to new troops is vital to keep gene pools strong—even more so on the Peninsula where traditional migration routes on and off the Peninsula have long since been cut off by urban sprawl’.
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Ironically fake news is now being accused of suggesting that Malania Trump has a double and that when Trump refers to his wife as ‘being right here’, that too could be doubted! George Bush Junior (2002) recently published a book called ‘Reflections on my father’ in which the life of American politics is described from the point of view of the status quo. I read it at the height of the North Korean nuclear standoff in the form of twitter posts by Trump to Kim Jong Un.
The Republicans of the past and the present are different in that their sense of values and service has changed. But this is perhaps because the public of the past and present has changed too. They are more media savvy, more overwhelmed with information and rather lacking in wisdom. This morning I was woken by a news cast by Bush senior saying Americans need to reconnect with values of decency to define them and not let bullying define the culture of the nation. Archives, digital media and daily news feeds are the lens for everyday teaching and research in the Anthropocene.
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Everyday reflections in a neoliberal economy: Staff received a witty email recently inviting us to ‘Bring out your dead...look at your past and present work and try to regenerate it!’ All in the interest of publications?
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Helen Zille speaks on Cape Town water crisis—youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHl8VtMADks.
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http://www.giftofthegivers.org/about “Thus far we have disbursed R2.1 billion in aid to needy individuals and communities in our 25 year history. Our motto is simple: “Best Among People are those who Benefit Mankind” and accordingly we serve ALL people irrespective of race, religion, culture, colour, political affiliation or geographical location, unconditionally”.
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Reporter: Madeleine Amberger/tkw Editor: Holly Fox http://www.dw.com/en/the-environmental-downside-to-desalinated-water/a-15335132.
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McIntyre-Mills, J. (2019). Everyday News: Living in the Anthropocene—Autoethnographic Reflections. In: McIntyre-Mills, J., Romm, N.R.A., Corcoran-Nantes, Y. (eds) Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons. Contemporary Systems Thinking. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04891-4_3
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