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The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
It was established in 1978 and is the largest dam in the Western Cape Water Supply System with a capacity of 480 million cubic metres, about 41% of the water storage capacity available to Cape Town, which has a population of over 4 million people. [1] The dam mainly serves for municipal and industrial use as well as for irrigation purposes.
The reservoir shown in the background is formed by the Theewaterskloof Dam. The site of today's Berg river dam is in the valley to the left of the reservoir. The dam will increase the water storage capacity to supply Cape Town, South Africa's second largest metropolitan area, from 768 to 898 million cubic metres (623,000 to 728,000 acre⋅ft). [7]
At the 9:20 p.m. news conference, Toiya said the reservoir was at the 80-foot level and that evacuations would be required before the level reaches the dam's 88-foot maximum.
In 2018 about 10,000 Oahu residents were put on alert as rain from Tropical Storm Olivia began to fill Nuuanu Reservoir No. 1 and filled with rainwater to just 1-1/2 feet below its dam's spillway ...
Wemmershoek Dam is a rock-fill type dam located on the Wemmershoek River near Franschhoek and Paarl in South Africa. It was constructed between 1953 and 1957 on behalf of the City of Cape Town . With a reservoir capacity of 58,644 megalitres (2,071.0 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft), it provides approximately 6.5% of the storage capacity of the Western Cape ...
Voëlvlei Dam is a dam located in the Western Cape, South Africa near the town of Gouda.The earth-fill wall is 2,910 metres (9,550 ft) long and 10 metres (33 ft) high. The reservoir covers an area of 1,524 hectares (3,770 acres) and has a capacity of 168,000 megalitres (5,900 × 10 ^ 6 cu ft), [1] making it the second-largest reservoir in the Western Cape Water Supply System.
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