Green Bond to help with 'new normal' of water shortages
13 July 2017
Cape Town – The City of Cape Town should spend some of the R1bn raised in its first Green Bond on installing digital water-use devices in homes, a University of Cape Town (UCT) senior lecturer has suggested.
"We have no electronic dashboard to help us compare day-to-day consumption," Dr Kevin Winter, who is also a leader at the Future Water Institute, said on Wednesday.
The devices would be similar to pre-paid electricity meters and allow people to see how much they use, at a time when water is becoming scarcer and dam levels stay in the red.
Mayor Patricia de Lille declared a local disaster on March 3 due to the water crisis. In its proposal for the Green Bond, the City said the drought was affecting all its services.