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Water issues suck.
We lived in Vryheid, KZN 2 years back. Had no water for 8 months. Fetched water from the communal municipal-tank once or twice, but after that, we got water from friends and family, about 300-400km away; either when we visited or when they visited. We never had more than 200l stocked up. When it dropped below 50l you start arranging a weekend away but had to stand in the Oasis queue couple of times.:persevere:
I collected rainwater in our bathtub and used that for flushing the toilets and bathing. We didnā€™t call it ā€œbathingā€ - we called it ā€œskottelā€: 2l of hot water and a cloth, just wipe the essentials.
If itā€™s yellow, let it mellow, if itā€™s brown, flush it down. Tried to reuse all water - basically, everything went down the toilet.

We used about 100l water per week.

Eventually, the landlord put up a 1000l tank that he filled for us as needed - this was grey water that we only used to skottel and to flush toilets. Water for everything else was still being ā€œimportedā€.

Weā€™ve moved. We have tap water now. But I still collect water. I still save water where I can.

Not having water changes you, for the better I believe.

Goodluck, troubling times ahead!

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yea I am scared for that day - at least we still have a relatively full salt water pool and 2 big jojo tanks that managed to fill almost full with the bit of rain we had.

I am already struggling with showering in tubs and all that.

Neither spar or checkers has 5l anymore. Apparently there were fist fights in some shops

Save water drink beer I always say. Also good I now have 1200l stockpiled

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Im glad I stocked up last week - but yea need more

It takes 7 litres of water to make a litre of beer.

I was at the jack black brewery last year and I was told 90% of his day is spent cleaning everything

Yeah I keep singing my own praises about my water stock but it will be gone in 2 monthsā€¦

i only have 100 litres :unamused:

I have a tap

My preferred brew comes from Sandton so I should be fine. I donā€™t know what the hell these craft breweries in CPT are going to do.

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I only shower ever 3 days or so, I donā€™t really sweat and Its actually better because of my eczema in any case, when I do there is a bucket basically the size of the shower in place for grey. Me and the SO use very little water in any case, I just want to make sure I have drinking water at this point , I can always go dive into the ocean if i stink its 5 min away

Iā€™m sure they have a plan or a borehole

The problem is we have only 50L clean aka not grey water since the jojotanks water hasnt been treated or filtered in any way.

The shower water gives me 2 buckets of water per day - so that is 1 loo flush and the rest we combine to do laundry in.

I love darling brew and jack black, so I might have a problem

So all you showering in buckets. No peeing in shower anymore? :frowning:

Or theyā€™ll end up trucking water from North or East Cape

they already do, the Not to be named water distributor is not far from us and they receive 2-3 links a week.

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90 second showers, nuh uh!

shower every second day then you can do a 180