Tourists who want to help Cape Town during its water crisis should sing in the shower.
South Africa’s second-largest city is suffering from a severe water shortage and expects to run out of water on July 9, the doomsday date known as Day Zero.
To keep time, you can count Mississippis, set a stopwatch or play one of several South African songs that have been shortened to two minutes.
“It’s not pandemonium — ‘I can’t shower.
Only Cape Town is.
“People think that if there’s a drought in Cape Town, it must be all over,” he said.
“It’s water-wise tourism,” he said.
Last year, the dams were 37 percent full; this week, the number is hovering at 24 percent.
When the needle hits 13 percent, the government will declare Day Zero and turn off the municipality’s running water.
For updates and facts on the water crisis, Wesgro, the tourism office for Cape Town and the Western Cape, created a website and Twitter account: #WaterWiseTourism.

The water crisis in the Western Cape should usher in a new era of governance of and new attitudes towards the resource, experts have said.
Whereas in the past, water in South Africa has been dealt with as a finite resource, suggests Anthony Turton, a professor at the Centre for Environmental Management of the University of the Free State, South Africa now needs to start treating water as an infinitely renewable resource through policies informed by science and new technology.
Speaking at a recent conference attended by scientists, activists and organisations concerned with water scarcity, Turton and other panellists urged that continued reliance on antiquated water distribution and conservation methods would result in a recurrence of the same crisis during times of drought, especially given the threats posed by climate change.
Turton referred to what is required as a paradigm shift from a mindset of scarcity to one of abundance.
“We need […] to understand the physics and chemistry of water.
Water is not a stock… Water is a flux.
A flux moves in time and space,” he said.
Recovering water from waste, the lowest hanging fruit, was but one of the areas new policies needed to focus on, he said.
Dr Clive Lipchin, director of the Centre for Transboundary Water Management at Israel’s Arava Institute, suggested that South Africa had much to gain in terms of expertise in the area of waste water management from this Middle Eastern country.
“We want to see water as a basic human right, something that cannot be denied to people, because water is life.

Virat Kohli Drinks Evian Water Costs Rs 600 Per Litre In A Country Where 50 Percent People Face Water Scarcity.
This type of water is imported from France.
According to the Laughing colours, The water is especially filled from a natural spring that is located in a rural area.
The Evian water bottles are available in different sizes at different prices.
The small sized bottle of Evian brand water bottle costs around Rs.
240 in India.
It is a half litre bottle.
“Noteworthy is that about 50 percent of the people facing this level of water scarcity live in China and India.” The report also noted that about 500 million people live in areas where water consumption exceeds the locally renewable water resources by a factor of two.
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Forest Springs bottled water recalled.
Forest Springs bottled water is being jointly recalled by the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) and Forest Springs Ltd, due to concerns about possible contamination of the 1.5 litre size bottle of that product.
In a statement today, the SLBS said that as a precaution the recall affects all Forest Springs Water which carries the best before date codes of 31927/04/18.
The bureau has advised customers not to consume the affected products bearing the codes.
“Forest Springs is cooperating fully with the SLBS in resolving all concerns relating to this matter,” the SLBS statement said.
Distribution of new batches of the bottled water has ceased until full inspection and certification by the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards.
“A preliminary investigation suggests a mechanical failure as the cause of the possible contamination of the water.
The company is working with the SLBS to determine the definitive cause of the problem,” the SLBS explained.
It said that following this, immediate action will be taken to prevent a recurrence.
“Once the SLBS’s assessment process is complete a full statement will be released to the public on the status of the company’s bottled water products,” the statement said.

BREAKING NEWS: Forest Springs bottled water recalled due to possible contamination.
– The Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards (SLBS) wishes to advise the public that Forest Springs Bottled Water is being jointly recalled by the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards and Forest Springs Ltd, due to concerns about possible contamination of the 1.5 litre size bottle of that product.
As a precaution the recall affects all Forest Springs Water which carries the best before date codes of 31927/04/18.
Customers are advised not to consume the affected products bearing the codes.
The company has instructed all outlets which carry the brand to remove the affected batch of water from their shelves as of Friday April 21st 2017.
Distribution of new batches of the bottled water has ceased until full inspection and certification by the Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards.
A preliminary investigation suggests a mechanical failure as the cause of the possible contamination of the water.
The company is working with the SLBS to determine the definitive cause of the problem.
Following this, immediate action will be taken to prevent its reoccurrence.
Once the SLBS’s assessment process is complete a full statement will be released to the public on the status of the company’s bottled water products.

The water is contaminated with the E Coli (Escherichia coli) bacteria but she still uses it to wash and cook food for her children.
The government, however, can only meet 20 per cent of that demand, especially during the dry season, reported The Himalayan Times.
People have resorted to buying water from private water sellers who get their supplies from the water factories or rivers.
But most of the water supplies in Kathmandu are contaminated.
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took for testing, the water from the well was the most contaminated as it was located next to a severely polluted river.
Some 6,000 rivers flow through Nepal but none of those in the Kathmandu Valley are clean.
“As a result, the sewage leaked through the water pipes and got mixed with stone taps.
“There is no water in Kathmandu that you can drink directly because most of the water supply in Kathmandu is very contaminated," he said.
“The piped (treated) water supply may get contaminated during transmission.

Protest planned to target Nestlé water bottling operations in San Bernardino Mountains.
A diverse group of environmental activists, involved citizens, students and mountain residents are coming together for a planned protest Sunday afternoon against Nestlé Waters North America’s controversial water bottling operations in the San Bernardino National Forest.
In 2016, bottled water sales exceeded traditional soda sales for the first time in the United States, according to Beverage Marketing Corp., a research and consulting firm.
The protest is an offshoot of a Jan. 29 meeting in Twin Peaks of the League of Women Voters for the San Bernardino Area and the Rimforest-based Save Our Forest Association and one held the next day at San Bernardino Valley College, said Longville, who will be among those driving protesters from the high school to the empty lot.
Nestlé Waters North America says its Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water “has been sustainable bottled from the springs in Strawberry Canyon, in what is now the San Bernardino National Forest, for more than 121 years.” “We take our responsibility as a California water steward seriously and our ability to operate for more than a century points to our commitment to long-term sustainability,” said Christopher Rieck, a Nestlé Waters North America spokesman.
Loe’s statements and those of others prompted the group to look deeper into the issues, Mandell said.
After seeing several water collection sites on that March hike, U of R senior Maddie McNerthmey, 22, said, “I gained a better understanding about what this issue is about.” Much of the Nestlé controversy swirls around a special use permit, which Nestlé pays the Forest Service $524 annually for its piping and other hardware necessary for water extraction, under a permit which expired in 1988.
From 1947 until 2015, nearly 4.3 billion gallons of spring water have been taken from pipes in Strawberry Canyon, under several different ownerships of the Arrowhead bottled water brand, according to a recently released League of Women Voters position paper on a proposed renewal of Nestlé’s special use permit.
“We are very excited about the demonstration Sunday.
Officials with the State Water Resources Control Board have said an investigation into Nestlé’s ownership rights may be complete this month.

Mammoth Lakes, Calif. — The majestic beauty of California’s Sierra Nevada never fails to impress. But the mountain range, which stretches hundreds of miles, is much more than a stunning vista. It’s a linchpin that helps make living in an arid state possible. That’s because one of California’s most important water supplies is melted snow. Each spring and summer, the Sierra sends runoff down its slopes that recharges rivers and reservoirs, allowing crops to be irrigated and drinking glasses to be filled. Knowing with precision how much snow has accumulated is crucial for farmers and water managers. That’s where a mapping project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory known as the Airborne Snow Observatory comes in. Using measurements gathered by specialized instruments on a plane, scientists have been able to gain an unprecedented understanding of the amount of water present in the Sierra’s snow. This year, after California’s very wet winter, the totals have been remarkably big. Using the NASA data, we compared this year’s snowpack with that of 2015, when the state was in the grip of drought (which, at least officially, is still ongoing). In the interactive maps below, the white areas had a meter, or 3.3 feet, or more of snow on the ground in March. High in the mountains, this year’s snow blankets the ground in layers tens of feet deep in many places. In 2015, almost none of this area had snow that thick: At the lower elevations around the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, which collects most of the melting snow runoff in this area and supplies…

Groundwater is by far our largest of the four water reservoir systems in California, where agriculture and urban users consume about 40 million acre-feet (MAF) each year, mostly from spring to fall: Mountain snowpack, in an average winter and spring, holds about 15 MAF Surface water storage reservoirs have a total capacity of 40 MAF Soils store many 10s of MAF of our winter precipitation for use by natural vegetation, crops, and urban landscaping Groundwater reservoirs are endowed with well over 1,000 MAF of freshwater With this endowment, groundwater storage works like a large bank account.
Water levels rise during winter and spring due to recharge from precipitation and recharge from streams that carry winter runoff (plenty of bank deposits), while groundwater pumping is limited (small account withdrawals).
In dry years, it is common to see water levels recover less during the (dry) winter.
In wet years, the opposite occurs: water levels recover more strongly after a wet winter and groundwater levels are not drawn down as much in the summer, resulting in a net year-over-year rise in water levels.
In other places, the decline in groundwater levels may be less obvious: year-over-year water levels fall during drought, but recover during wet years.
The decline has also created groundwater storage space to replenish with extra water in wet years.
Recharge as the driver for groundwater recovery after drought.
Figure 3 shows some good examples from the Sacramento Valley (Yolo County) and the southern Central Valley (Tulare County): If neither of these resources are at hand, consider the rate at which water levels have fallen over the past five years: recovery may likely happen at about the same rate as water levels have fallen.
Irrigating suitable agricultural land with surplus winter water may allow recharge of one-half to two feet of water between December and March – allowing for additional intentional recharge in wet years of perhaps 2-6 MAF across the Central Valley, if and where water rights, infrastructure, and agricultural chemicals could also be managed appropriately (Water Foundation, 2015).
Groundwater: Where does our water come from?