When the forecasts turned out to be true and rain fell from the skies, the residents of Cape Town in South Africa rejoiced, thanked God and stood outside to feel the water on their skin.<\/p>\n
In the drought-hit city, Friday night\u2019s 8mm (0.3 inches) was long-desired.<\/p>\n
Residents of the city have been under orders to save water meticulously to avoid the city\u2019s taps running dry.<\/p>\n
There is a very real chance that Cape Town will simply run out of water.<\/p>\n
The city has had low rainfall for three years.<\/p>\n
In January, local authorities s lashed res ident s \u2019 water allowance to 50 litres (88 pints) each a day. That is enough for a very short shower and just one flush of the toilet when other needs \u2013 including just one load of the washing machine a week \u2013 are taken into account.<\/p>\n
So the rainfall on Friday came as a boon to many who saw their chance to store some extra water, for watering plants, flushing toilets or cleaning.<\/p>\n
Some people in Cape Town took the moment to feel thankful for the feel of the rain on their skin.<\/p>\n
One pastor, who had led prayer for rain in Cape Town, said his prayers had been answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a confirmation that I am a true prophet and whatever that I have promised Cape Town has come to pass,\u201d Paseka \u201cMboro\u201d Motsoeneng said, complaining that the media had not taken his prayer seriously.<\/p>\n
Sadly for residents, it is unlikely that the shower will lift the city\u2019s water woes.<\/p>\n
They have been watching the date of the city\u2019s \u201cDay Zero\u201d move for several months. That is the day taps will be switched off to private homes and residents will have to go to collection points for rationed water.<\/p>\n
Now, instead of April, \u201cDay Zero\u201d is projected to arrive on May 11.<\/p>\n
But it is because farmers around the city have been using less water \u2013 not because of that small amount of rain.\u2014 BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When the forecasts turned out to be true and rain fell from the skies, the residents of Cape Town in South Africa rejoiced, thanked God and stood outside to feel the water on their skin. In the drought-hit city, Friday night\u2019s 8mm (0.3 inches) was long-desired. Residents of the city have been under orders to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60581,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60576\/revisions\/60581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}