"We make so many bottles a day — this is such a big place.
And before you go to each child, you need to wash your hands," care assistant Carmilla Slamdien told AFP as she described the water-intensive routine of feeding, washing and sterilisation.
Nazareth House’s residents are among the city’s most vulnerable people.
They now face the prospect that their taps will be shut off within months as the three-year-long drought — the worst in more than a century — leaves reservoirs empty.
Most Cape Town residents will be forced to queue at communal taps at 200 water points — likely under police or military guard — to collect a daily ration of 25 litres (6.6 US gallons) or half the amount allowed now.
"You don’t know if there’ll be water," said Twani of the three taps that supply several hundred residents.
City officials estimate that informal settlement’s like Twani’s use just five percent of the city’s water.
He doubted that residents of Cape Town’s wealthier areas — which account for more than 65 percent of total consumption — would cope with water queues and ever stricter limits.
But Twani said guests at his hotel bar are well aware of Cape Town’s water crisis.
Women wearing expensive floral-print pencil dresses waited alongside young men in labourers’ overalls and families with children wearing uniforms from both private and government schools.