The City of Cape Town in South Africa is telling some residents to boil water if it appeared discolored, after repeated power failures affected a local water plant’s ability to process sludge, and scarce energy was devoted to primary water treatment.
The City of Cape Town has issued a precautionary notice for parts of the metro that is experiencing discoloured water as a result of a fault at one of its water treatment facilities.
According to a statement, “ongoing load shedding has had a detrimental effect on the City of Cape Town’s water supply”, affecting water quality that has not been able to be treated due to a lack of energy to operate the water treatment facility. Faure Water Treatment Plant, the affected facility, has experienced a process control fault; a consequence of the current bouts of rolling blackouts. The City said the rolling blackouts had resulted in limited operational hours for sludge processing, and that a generator could not be used due to high energy demand to treat the water.
Cape Town and Johannesburg have both announced that they will turn to private companies to provide power, though the country’s participation in the Paris Climate Accords means that coal, while plentiful, will not be among the new sources. Many states in the U.S. are facing the prospect of electricity shortages because of a rush to invest in “green” energy sources and to shutter fossil fuel and nuclear plants. States as disparate as California and Texas have experienced blackouts.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the recent e-book,
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