Global warming has already raised the risk of more severe droughts in Cape Town
Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 10:40
in Earth & Climate
Between 2015 and 2017 South Africa's South Western Cape region experienced three of its lowest rainfall years on record. This led to the progressive depletion of water supply reservoirs and by the summer of 2017/18 there was a real danger that – without drastic reductions in water use – the region, and especially the city of Cape Town, would run out of water.