In Illustration You Lot Missed It: Cape Town Confident Of Beating H2o Crisis Side Past Times Side Year

A erstwhile denizen of da 'Ville, Joseph Cotterill has a follow-up to his deep dive of a duet months ago.

From the Financial Times:

June 28, 2018

Cape Town confident of beating H2O crisis adjacent twelvemonth

Strong pelting as well as stringent saving has reduced the chances of a crisis

Cape Town is probable to endure saved from running out of H2O adjacent year, equally good equally inwards 2018, later rigid wintertime rains as well as a relentless civic saving crusade boosted dams supplying South Africa’s 2d city, officials said.

Ian Neilson, Cape Town’s deputy mayor, said on Th that alongside ii to a greater extent than months of pelting to go, dams had already risen to higher levels than at the cease of final year’s winter, pushing dorsum the dreaded Day Zero when nearly all taps would endure close off inwards the drought-hit city.

“We are at in i lawsuit inwards a compass to dry reason that non alone convey nosotros managed to avoid Day Zero this year, but nosotros volition too safely acquire through summertime 2019,” Mr Neilson said. However, he warned that this depends on “adequate H2O restrictions” beingness maintained....MORE

Back inwards May nosotros linked to his:

South Africa: How Cape Town trounce the drought

Mr. Cotterill was too responsible for a couple Mandy Rice-Davies-isms piece at FT Alphaville including i of my favs:

July 11, 2012
Mandy Rice-Davies Sighting at FT Alphaville

Mandy Rice-Davies is a former model as well as showgirl known for her run inwards the Profumo affair.
When informed yesteryear the prosecuting attorney that Lord Astor disputed her version of events as well as denied having an matter she responded:

 "Well, he would, wouldn't he?"

From the FT Alphaville post:
Associated Press as well as Bloomberg convey already torn it apart. But then, they would....

To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Cotterill is non a erstwhile model as well as showgirl.... Last recounted inwards 2016's "Mark Zuckerberg Denies Being a Secret Lizard Person":
Woohoo, a Mandy Rice-Davies moment!*

From Gizmodo:

Mark Zuckerberg hosted his starting fourth dimension e'er Facebook Live Q&A today. And it went virtually equally good equally you’d expect. One of the telephone substitution things nosotros learned? Mark Zuckerberg is non a lizard person. Or hence he says....MORE

Well he would say, wouldn't he?