Cape Town has been in the news a lot over the past year — but sadly, for all the wrong reasons. The city is battling an unprecedented water crisis, thanks to a rare drought that has resulted in ...

Cape Town - Five months ago, the City of Cape Town realised the way it was handling the drought crisis was not working. Instead of focusing on pushing down water demand and supplementing its supply ...

As of a month ago, much of the state was still in a severe drought, with other regions in moderate droughts at the time.

During the first 2 years of a drought that has hit South Africa for the past 3 years, the national government, which controls the water supply to Cape Town, did not limit water use to farmers and ...

Cape Town - A drought crisis task team created last year on the instructions of embattled Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has been closed down. This emerged on Tuesday as the City of Cape Town faces ...

Johannesburg and Pretoria need to follow Cape Town’s lead and actively cut their water use. In Eastern Cape, a crippling drought coupled with inadequate contingency plans left thousands without ...

As drought brought severe water shortages to the people of Cape Town, it also inspired the use of some innovative water-saving products. A fully loaded dishwasher uses 2.5 gallons (9.5 liters ...

the authorities have yet to crack the mystery of Cape Town's burning trains. The impact on the city - still recovering from a crippling drought - has been severe. "In my mind there is some sort of ...

The question then becomes, can we find a way to produce more crops that have this ability to tolerate drought? My research focus began when I started working at the University of Cape Town (1994 ...