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Cape Town is dangerously close to becoming the first modern city to run out of water

On Tuesday, officials in Cape Town, South Africa, moved up their estimate for a water shortage "day zero" by nine days, leaving just 80 to go until residents could lose piped water to their homes due to critically low levels in the city's reservoirs, The Guardian reports. “It is still possible to push back day zero if we all stand together now and change our current path," urged Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson. The situation is even more dire in other parts of the country, where the town of Patensie has just 25 percent of their water quota left for the year, and Hankey just 9 percent; both are estimated to have their day zero on March 8, SABC TV reporter Jayed- Leigh Paulse said. The situation in Cape Town, though, is particularly startling; if it actually reaches day zero, it will be "the first major city in the developed world to run out of water," NPR writes.

 

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