Climate change could make Cape Town a very dry place

Scientists at two American institutions, Stanford University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have warned that climate change caused by human activities has greatly increased the probability of Cape Town being again afflicted by very severe droughts such as that experienced by the city from mid-2015 to mid-2018. From late 2017 to mid-2018 there were fears that the water levels in the city’s dams would fall so low that Cape Town would effectively run out of water, ...

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