The city’s water comes from its mountains. It looks like a CGI city somebody made for a “Lord of the Rings” sequel or something.Īnyway, like everywhere else on earth, Cape Town has been feeling the effects of the climate crisis. I mean, it’s parked right at the union of two oceans, and it’s bordered by majestic mountains. There’s even a lake where the eye should be-Lake Victoria.Īnyway, Cape Town is on the southernmost tip of South Africa, on the west side. The continent of Africa looks like a dog’s head, nose down, like it’s drinking from a bowl. That would be Cape Town, South Africa, a rapidly growing city of 4.7 million people. Season 1, Episode 10: How women with chainsaws saved Cape Town. I’m David Pogue, and this is “Unsung Science.” Thandeka Those areas are very mountainous. All they needed was a helicopter and an army of women with chainsaws. So the scientists at a nonprofit proposed a solution that worked with nature instead of against it. Louise The residents would go and collect their daily supply of seven gallons of water every day, seven gallons of water per person per day. The drought was so bad, nothing but muddy water came out of your faucet. In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa became the first major city to run out of water. Episode transcript Unsung Science: Cape Town Drought Thandeka Mayiji-Rafu and Asiphe Cetywayo, Greater Cape Town Water Fund tree-cutting contractors. Guests: Louise Stafford, Director of Source Water Protection in South Africa, The Nature Conservancy. All they needed was a helicopter, some ropes and saws, and some of the poorest women in Cape Town.
But then an environmental nonprofit, the Nature Conservancy, proposed a radically different approach that could win Cape Town 13 billion gallons of water a year, cheaply and perpetually, using a method that worked with nature instead of against it. The town leaders discussed expensive, environmentally disruptive projects like pipelines and desalination plants. It was the first major city to face Day Zero: when you’d turn on the faucet-and nothing would come out. In 2018, following a historic three-year drought, the water sources in Cape Town, South Africa ran dry.
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