Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · Feb 18

98% of the city's water comes from reservoirs. Here's what the largest reservoir looked like at normal times and at the height of the drought. 3/

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Kyle Meng · Feb 18

Yet, incredibly, Cape Town, through a combination of higher prices, restrictions and social campaigns, eventually avoided Day Zero. Reservoir levels started recovering in 2018. Our paper is about what happened. And the longer-term consequences. A story in 4 figures... 4/