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 capacity.
Poster issued in 2017 by Western Cape government calling for people to conserve water
Theewaterskloof Dam at approximately 12% on 10 February 2018
Cape Town's largest reservoir, Theewaterskloof, was at 11% capacity in March 2018
The Flower Monument in the Westridge Gardens was erected to memorialise a prayer meeting that called for good rains during the water crisis.
The City of Cape Town is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of Cape Town and surrounding areas. As of the 2016 community survey, it had a population of 4,005,016.
Helen Zille, former mayor of the City of Cape Town.