CAPE TOWN WATER CRISIS - A CALL TO PRAYER
Innocent Dzikamayi Mangwengwende
Brethren,
Just a reminder for us to continue praying for rain in Cape Town. The situation looks dire and only Divine intervention will help in times like these.
I The Prayer of Faith
13Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
Let us pray on....
In photos - Cape Town's water crisis
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First published by GroundUp
This is part one of a GroundUp special series on Cape Town's water crisis.
There are six major dams in Cape Town; Berg River, Steenbras Lower, Steenbras Upper, Theewaterskloof, Voëvlei, and Wemmershoek. These hold 99.6% of the city's water capacity, with eight smaller dams, mostly on Table Mountain, responsible for a mere 0.4%. Theewaterskloof is the largest of the six major dams, with a total capacity of 480,188 megalitres. It is responsible for storing more than half of Cape Town's surface water supply.
As of Monday 15 May, the level of Theewaterskloof was just 15.7%, compared to close to 31.3% at the same time last year, 51.3% in 2015, and 74.5% in 2014. Across the six dams the levels were a mere 21.2%, a record low.
Last year June, GroundUp reporters visited some of the dams and photographed them. We returned last week (11 May). Caution: these photos are not taken at the same time of the year, so they are not directly comparable for understanding the drop in the dam levels. GroundUp is intending to eventually have a set of directly comparable photos.
Theewaterskloof Dam in October 2010 was over 90% full. Photo from Google Maps.
From a similar position as the above photo, you can see how low Cape Town's biggest dam was in June 2016. Photo: Masixole Feni.
Theewaterskloof dam on 11 May 2017. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks.
If you zoom in on the photos above, you can see yellow vertical markers on the right side of the concrete column. There are four more visible in May 2017 than in June 2016
Thabang Tladi
Brethren,
Just a reminder for us to continue praying for rain in Cape Town. The situation looks dire and only Divine intervention will help in times like these.
I The Prayer of Faith
13Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick. The Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.17Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. 18Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.
Let us pray on....
In photos - Cape Town's water crisis
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© Provided by Daily Maverick 2017-05-16-ground up -in -photos-cape-towns-water-crisis
First published by GroundUp
This is part one of a GroundUp special series on Cape Town's water crisis.
There are six major dams in Cape Town; Berg River, Steenbras Lower, Steenbras Upper, Theewaterskloof, Voëvlei, and Wemmershoek. These hold 99.6% of the city's water capacity, with eight smaller dams, mostly on Table Mountain, responsible for a mere 0.4%. Theewaterskloof is the largest of the six major dams, with a total capacity of 480,188 megalitres. It is responsible for storing more than half of Cape Town's surface water supply.
As of Monday 15 May, the level of Theewaterskloof was just 15.7%, compared to close to 31.3% at the same time last year, 51.3% in 2015, and 74.5% in 2014. Across the six dams the levels were a mere 21.2%, a record low.
Last year June, GroundUp reporters visited some of the dams and photographed them. We returned last week (11 May). Caution: these photos are not taken at the same time of the year, so they are not directly comparable for understanding the drop in the dam levels. GroundUp is intending to eventually have a set of directly comparable photos.
Theewaterskloof Dam in October 2010 was over 90% full. Photo from Google Maps.
From a similar position as the above photo, you can see how low Cape Town's biggest dam was in June 2016. Photo: Masixole Feni.
Theewaterskloof dam on 11 May 2017. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks.
If you zoom in on the photos above, you can see yellow vertical markers on the right side of the concrete column. There are four more visible in May 2017 than in June 2016
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