It has been raining solidly for  days and after a difficult year of water restrictions here in the Western Cape of South Africa, we are reveling in an abundance of water.

The almost four year-long drought hasn’t broken yet, but as I write this our dams are just a hair’s breadth away from being filled to 50% capacity so we are whooping with joy and relief. This means that because we managed to adequately save water, and must keep doing so, the pall of Day Zero is no longer an impending reality.

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