I downloaded this article April 12, 2018. This was predicted to happen in 2019 and I’m posting this on August 5, 2019 and it looks like the water levels in Cape Town are doing okay at the moment. They did impose restrictions on water usage, so maybe that made the difference. Image further below is how water usage looks as of 5 August 2019, check here for water usage status

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