Maimane warns govt about water allocations for Western Cape
7 February 2018
Cape Town - The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) must stick to the amounts of water it is allocating to farmers in the Western Cape to protect the available dam water for Cape Town, Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane warned on Wednesday.
"It is important that the national department sticks to these allocations, and does not exceed them, which would impinge on the remaining dam water available to the city," Maimane said at a Defeat Day Zero briefing.
Maimane has started giving water briefings after Mayor Patricia De Lille was side-lined during party political turmoil within the Cape Town council.
Maimane noted, in a statement released after the briefing, that the agricultural sector's steady decline in water use helped push Day Zero back to May 11, giving Capetonians some relief.