It’s been quite a significant week regarding Cape Town’s water crisis. On Tuesday, the city basically admitted that what they are doing is implementing the ICLEI/Agenda 21 “ Resillient Cities program, which advocates “demand management” above all else as their primary strategy, by using that exact term to describe the current situation. The city said in a statement:
"If we continue to work as a team to lower our consumption to 450 million litres per day as required, we will become known as one of the most resilient cities in the world. We are fast becoming a leading example of a large city that is fundamentally changing its relationship with water”
AGRI SA, has finally come out and set the record straight about the demonization of the agricultural sector by the city, stating that the city has misled the public on Day Zero.
It’s been revealed that the city has lied about “60% of residents are not saving water”:
“My view is supported by the statement "some 200 000 households are using more than 10 500 litres per month (more than 350 litres per day)". 200 000 is 18% of the city's 1.1 million households, not 60%.”
And last but not least, the city has come up with what is probably the worst mascot of all time, Splash, the water saving mascot. Some people have pointed out that Splooge, would probably be a more fitting name. At least we now have something new to frighten our kids with on halloween.
What do you think of Splash?
Some other links related to this story:
Agenda 21 for Dummies Chapter 1, Chapter 2
Poisoning the well - The toxic ideology behind Cape Town’s water Crisis - Part 1, Part 2