On Cape Town's beaches, swimmers clean the sand from their feet with water and irrigation pipes water the region's famed vineyards.
But at the same time, some residents are still filling barrels for their toilets as it has been four years since South Africa's tourist capital, Cape Town, literally ran dry during a drought that was dubbed Day Zero.
Now water flows generously , but not for everyone. South Africa is the most unequal country in the world, with different races playing a key factor, according to a World Bank report released last week.
Taps in poor residents' homes run only intermittently, and rarely at full pressure.
We have toilets here. We have showers here. We can't use them, we're in the middle of a pandemic here and we don't even have water to wash our hands," residents say.
The city trucks that carry water to the community are unreliable, others complain.
During the drought, citywide efforts to conserve water created a sense of common purpose. Everyone avoided flushing toilets, gave up watering plants and left their cars sitting dirty for months.
[/P]Now swimming pools in Cape Town's upscale suburbs have water, but an estimated 31 neighborhoods lack access to clean water, mostly in slums and working-class neighborhoods.
Source: CNA
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