Cape Town’s collective water consumption for the past week increased by 11 million litres to 609 million litres per day of collective consumption.

Water users are encouraged to stay the course and use water wisely. Compared with historic data for the same time of the year, dam levels were at 21,5% of storage capacity in 2018 and at 25,6% of storage capacity in 2017.

Please see the following links for information on:

• Level 3 restriction guidelines: https://bit.do/L3-guide
• Level 3 water and sanitation tariffs: https://bit.do/L3-tariffs
• Level 3 overview: https://bit.do/L3-overview
• Level 3 FAQs: https://bit.do/L3-faqs

Note to editors and stakeholders: The City apologises for the delay in releasing these statistics over the past two weeks. Resource constraints are currently causing delays in compiling the data. Work is under way to resume a regular Monday afternoon update as soon as possible.

Please visit www.capetown.gov.za/thinkwater for all water-related information and Frequently Asked Questions. 

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