The study, focused on South Africa's Cape Town, suggested that the wealthiest 14 percent of the population was behind more than half the city's water consumption.
over another South African city, Gqeberha, last year, as its dams began to fail because of low water levels.While local authorities took steps to reduce water consumption in Cape Town to avert “day zero,” the measures most affected lower-income groups, who were forced to cut their usage to levels that could leave them unable to meet their basic needs for bathing, laundry and cooking, the study said.
If all of Cape Town’s residents had used a more equal amount of water, the city “could have averted some of the worst effects of Day Zero,” the paper found. The researchers’ model also showed that climate change — and its impact on drought conditions and local restrictions on water use — could lead to a significant increase in the wealthiest groups’ use of private boreholes, “thereby substantially depleting the groundwater resources available within the area.”Many previous studies in the natural sciences, Savelli said, had not taken the role o politics or inequalities into consideration when dealing with issues of drought or water security.
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