Cape Town’s inequality is worsening and increasingly focusing on wealth.
As observed in the drought crisis the municipality favours the wealthy and environmentally unconscious.
Apart from the fact that the city has successfully ignored all warning signs and research results over the past 15 years, emphasising that we will run into a predicted crisis, borehole owners are being favoured by our municipality.
For borehole owners, there is no water crisis and life continues as normal.
Where 85% of citizens are rationing and saving water, 15% of our population are still using hosepipes to clean their driveways, wash their cars daily, use their pools and water their gardens.
In addition, borehole water is now being used for bathrooms, kitchen and pool supply.
Our water inspectors turn a blind eye to it.
This behaviour severely threatens our water resources by depleting groundwater, lowering our water table level and endangering our vegetation.
If the municipality would take the crisis as serious as it is; they would instantly stop or at least do not allow new building activities due to high levels of water consumption; they would not allow individualised depletion of groundwater resources and would build the urgently needed waste water plants to recycle water.
We would not face water shortages if we would recycle water as other cities in developing and developed countries do.
In order make a difference – the city needs to practice what it preaches, serving all citizens and not only the wealthy minority.