In March 2018 the climate experts were saying Cape Town was rapidly heading for Zero Water in their main water supply and this would be the future pattern: hotter weather and worse drought.
Well, when the winter rainfall season began that year the dams filled up and the Western Cape has had good rainfall every year since.
This is the seventh year in a row and the dams are 74% full with 12 more weeks of winter rain due.
The cold fronts this week will push that number well over 80%. The water shortage in Cape Town is a people problem and not a climate problem because the population has grown enormously.
The biggest dam was completed in 1979 and since then the population has increased from 1.6 million to 5 million but during these years only one much smaller dam has been completed increasing the water supply by 17%. Given the numbers even a schoolboy can do the Math and see the folly but the experts not.
These same experts are pushing the world to spend billions upon billions in futile climate engineering when we could spend a small fraction of this to successfully adapt to the weather conditions and problems they pose.
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