DEAR Editor,-
It is pleasing to see residents of South Africa rallying around to help the people of Cape Town through their water crisis. However, transporting bottles of drinking water is expensive and labour intensive. A round trip journey from Port Shepstone to Cape Town is 3 000km. It is a huge cost in fuel, vehicle wear-and-tear, drivers’ time, overnight stops and air pollution, as well as plastic pollution from the leftover bottles.
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Nearly all bottled water comes from underground sources and is unaffected by the water crisis. South African Breweries takes much of its water from an underground stream in Newlands and has offered to bottle a million cases of water should ‘Day Zero’ arrive.
But drinking water forms a very small percentage of our daily water use.
‘Gift of the Givers’, which is organising bottled water collection and distribution, states that donating money is the more practical option, which they can use to drill boreholes that can provide a regular source of water to alleviate the crises and provide a sustainable water source thereafter.
Check out their website https://www.giftofthegivers.org/ if you would like to make a financial donation towards the water crisis in Cape Town.
MIKE DAVIES
Umtentweni
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