Solar Desalination to address the water crisis in South Africa

South Africa and Cape Town Province in particular are suffering from an unprecedented drought for the last four years, leading the region to a massive water crisis and severe water restrictions: a consumption of only 50L of fresh water per day per person is now allowed.One of Cape Town Province’s reservoir completely dried up: By the end of the dry season in February, the level of the drinkable water from the province’s reservoirs was below 30%

The threat of the “Day Zero”, the day when the taps in the city run dry and people start queuing for water, has been pushed back from August 2018 back to 2019, but remains a looming danger given the dependency of rainfall.