Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · 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/
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Exhibit 1: Piped water use by income. Before drought, richer households used more piped water. During drought, everyone used less piped water, but usage by richer households fell a lot more. Amazingly, convergence in piped water use persisted even after the drought and its policies ended. 5/