Water at risk assignment

The physical geography of the city itself is pretty flat, but the surrounding areas are hilly and mountainous. Mountains nearby are Devils peak, Lions head and signal hill. On the other side of the city, is the Atlantic bay of cape town.

Over half of the 3.75 Million people who reside in the city and metropolitan area are people of color, one-fifth white, one quarter black and the rest Asian, mainly from India. The languages that are commonly found in Cape town is Afrikaans and English. The cities biggest export (across south Africa) comes from Cape Town which is fish.

The water issue in Cape Town is that they have had 3 years of drought which is leaving the local authorities to ration the water and limit it to 50L a day (which is hard for its almost 4 million residents). This drought is leaving local wells and waterbeds dry and slowly running out of water

The state of the water infrastructure is terrible. Since the government put an alternative water infrastructure it didn't do anything. Cape town is always getting a big number of immigrants, it was having issues keeping up, and has since failed to supply an sufficient amount of water for the city. Not to mention, Cape town is a very rich city, that requires a lot of water to sustain their lifestyle. I believe whoever is in charge of the infrastructure needs to really invest in more infrastructure. While this "50L a day" limit is in affect, they should be trying to build more infastructure to help perhaps raise and soon take away the limit..

As mentioned a lot through this, they city has limited the people to 50L a day. Other things they've done is shut off public showers at the beaches, discouraged bathing to once a week, and discouraged laundry to once every two weeks.

The social reactions seem to be frightened. The one quote from the case study says “I have 34 rooms,” she says. “I have 22 staff that work for me and they’re all breadwinners. So I cannot close my doors. And if I don’t have water, I can’t have a guest. “It’s as simple as that.” This woman, is frightened that these ladies, who are earning money to support their families, won't have enough water to keep the business open.

The political reaction is to really clamp down on people to use less then 50 L a day. For example, they raise taxes and give people hefty fines if they are caught using municipal water to wash their cars.

Worst case scenario; the city runs completely out of water, no one can drink or live there
Best case;Everyone abides by the rules and water levels return to normal, people can use normal amounts of water

-both Gaza and Jordan are both very dry and very flat areas, they are both very different to the surrounding areas of cape town with cape town being hilly and the middle east is flat

- the population of Gaza is 1.1 million, and the population of Jordan being 9.456 million people. The ethnic groups that live there are, Black, White and Middle Eastern people

-The water issue in the Middle east is a couple things. One is water theft. Water theft is the illegal use of water (ig. sucking water out of fire hydrants) another issue the Middle east is having is the water reservoirs. The water reservoirs in the middle east are only 60% full, but as the summer time comes that is going to force the water to dry up more.

The water infrastructure is starting to get stressed. with all the new refugees and armed conflicts has reduced the water availability to 140 cubic meters of water per person, when the world average is 500 cubic meters

The government needs to invest their money into some more heavy duty infrastructure, so when armed conflict comes around, it doesn't take much damage. They should also try to pass a law, that other countries can't intentionally bomb the water supplies, just because this affects the citizens of these countries

The Government has been restricting the flow of water to certain towns and villages. Most weeks the most water they'll have flowing through pipes is 12-24 hours.

The social reaction is hopeful and greedy. The hopeful people are those that hope one day they'll have enough water to survive freely on, the greedy people are those who are water thieves and only want themselves and their families to have water.

The political reaction is the same as Cape town. They are forcing their citizens to save as much water as they can.

Worst case scenario
All water dries up, thieves continue to steal, all water is gone. no one can survive
Best case
Everyone pushes for the water levels to rise and they succeed

Besides the Rockies in British Columbia, western Canada is generally a very flat, yet rolling hilly prairie area.

The total population of western Canada is 11,090,00 with much of the population residing in the capital cities of the 5 provinces

The water issue in Vancouver is that if communities rely on the melt water from the mountains for long, the city is going to run out of water.

As the case study says, the infrastructure needs to be upgraded in order to sustain the growth of population in the next decade. This job could take up to 800 million dollars to complete. Like both cape town and the middle east, the government should build more infrastructures and bigger so they are safe from ever being in this kind of danger again

Currently, the government has only but a ban on water your grass from may to October, which are usually the driest seasons. The government has also looked into, when and where they should put the infrastructure.

Both the social and political reactions are the same. They both want the water to keep flowing in their city, so in order for that to happen, they'll have to all work together.

Worst case
No one works together and the severity of the water deprivation is as bad as cape town
Best case
Everyone continues to work together and water flows in their city past 2030