Cape Town Water Restrictions

Mike sent me an email with this info….useful to know.

Ice water with fresh mint

These are the City of Cape Town’s new rules…

  • No watering (e.g. using buckets) on a garden, sports field, or other grassed area using potable water between 09:00 and 16:00. Facilities and customers making use of boreholes or other alternative sources are not exempt.
  • No watering (e.g. using buckets) will be permitted within 24 hours of rainfall that provides adequate saturation. Facilities and customers making use of boreholes or other alternative sources are not exempt.
  • Irrigation (e.g. hose pipe or sprinklers) is only to take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays during approved hours, and for no longer than an hour in total. Facilities and customers making use of boreholes or other alternative sources are not exempt.
  • If alternative water sources are utilised, customers should ensure that they display signage to this effect clearly visible from a public thoroughfare.

Borehole water

  • Where a hosepipe is used for irrigation, it must have a controlling device attached at the end.
  • No washing or hosing down of hard-surfaced or paved areas with potable (drinking water from tap) water.
  • A hosepipe used for washing vehicles must be fitted with an automatic self-closing device.
  • Automatic top-up systems for swimming pools and garden ponds are not allowed. Furthermore, the use of a pool cover is recommended.
  • Commercial car-wash industries must comply with industry best practice norms. Informal car washes must use buckets rather than hosepipes.
  • Wash basins in public facilities must be fitted with demand-type taps.
  • Showers provided at public facilities must be fitted with demand-type valves.
  • Potable water may not be used to dampen sand or other building material to prevent these materials from being blown away.
  • Standpipe draw-off taps must be of a height of at least 450 mm, measured from ground level.
  • The maximum flow rate from any tap installed at a hand basin may not exceed 6 litres per minute.
  • The maximum flow rate of any shower head may not exceed 10 litres per minute.
  • Water closet cisterns may not exceed 9,5 litres in capacity.
  • Automatic flushing cisterns or tipping tanks shall not be used for flushing a urinal.
  • All automatic flushing cisterns fitted to urinals must be replaced with manually operated systems, or non-manual apparatus that only flushes after each use.
  • Terminal water fittings (taps and outlets) installed outside any buildings, other than residential buildings, must incorporate a self-closing device; or have a removable handle for operating purposes; or be capable of being locked to prevent unauthorised use; or be of a demand type that limits water use for each operation.
  • Water audits must be undertaken annually by major water users (i.e. consumption of more than 10 000 kl a month), but excluding where these are multiple dwelling units.
  • No person may allow water, used as a heat-exchange medium in any equipment or plant and supplied from a water installation, to run continuously to waste except for maintaining a prescribed level of total dissolved solids in a recirculating plant.
  • Ornamental water features may only be operated if the water is recycled.

Talking of water, this is what Jesus said,

John 4:14

But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Keep the smile going.

God bless you!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

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