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The Cape Town water crisis in South Africa was a multi-year period in 2015–2020 of water shortage in the Western Cape region, most notably affecting the City of Cape Town. Dam water levels began decreasing in 2015 and the Cape Town water crisis peaked during mid-2017 to mid-2018 when water levels hovered between 14 and 29 percent of total dam ...
Ontario has 52 cities, [1] which together had in 2016 a cumulative population of 9,900,179 and average population of 190,388. [2] The most and least populous are Toronto and Dryden, with 2,794,356 and 7,749 residents, respectively. [2] Ontario's newest city is Richmond Hill, whose council voted to change from a town to a city on March 26, 2019. [3]
Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
COVER: Cape Town’s largest and most important dam, Theewaterskloof, holds more than half of the area’s water when it’s at capacity. TOP: Cape Town as seen from the top of Lion’s Head, one of the two mountains that give the city’s downtown a bowl-like shape. BOTTOM: A “road” in the semi-desert area outside of town.
This is a list of cities and towns in the Western Cape province of South Africa. They are divided according to the districts in which they are located. Cape Metropole
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML ... Western Cape: Cape Town
[1] [2] The drought was one of the worst in the region's history and led the South African government to declare the region a "disaster area" in October 2019. [ 3 ] A local hydrologist , Gideon Groenewald, has stated that it could be the worst drought the area as experienced in one thousand years [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and has had serious negative ...
After an unusually low snowfall winter, Ontario and Quebec descended into drought in May, with little or no rainfall through May and the first weeks of June. [ 17 ] [ 2 ] Quebec's weather in particular swung rapidly between extremes: multiple frosts in south Quebec early in May, with an early extreme heat wave along the Côte-Nord and Abitibi ...