The City of Cape Town is expected to enter a water crisis in the coming months following the announcement that Cape Town’s dam levels had fallen to 75.3% on the 15th of December 2025, indicating a decrease of 18% from 2024.
The city has moved to ‘early drought caution’ as demand rises and rainfall remains below average. Speaking to VOC News, Zahid Badroodien states that the trend has only worsened, with dam levels decreasing by 2% every week.
“In terms of where we are currently, we are still seeing a decline in the dam levels that service our city; we are sitting at about 64.8%, and we are seeing that at least every week there is a 2% reduction in dam level,” said the MAYCO member.
Badroodien furthers that if this trend were to continue, the province may enter into restrictions in November. Badroodien, however, states that work can be done today to eliminate the issue in the future, which requires residents to make necessary changes.
“What we know is that 70% of the water being used in our city is being used within homes. So that is for our showering, our bathing, our gardening, car washing, etc. If we are able to reduce that by at least 10%, we’re able to come in line with our allocation, and we should be okay heading into the next winter. However, we will only know by the next winter what the rainfall will be in that hydrological cycle,” explained Badroodien.
Listen to the full interview here:
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