Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?
by Jonathan Watts in Cape Town
Sat 3 Feb 2018 03.00 EST
Water crisis in Cape Town as 'day zero' approaches
CAPE TOWN WATER CRISIS // WHERE IS THE WATER ACTUALLY GOING?
In 10 weeks engineers will turn off water for a million homes as this South African city reacts to one-in-384-year drought. The rich are digging boreholes, more are panic-buying bottled water, and the army is on standby