At a council meeting today, the City of Cape Town tabled a draft proposal which includes an increase in the cost of water, effectively doubling it between now and 2020.
A report about a month ago attributed that South Africa indeed stared a water crisis directly in the eye. Experts told the inaugural South African Water and Energy Forum in Johannesburg that we even face the possibility of chronic water shortages as early as 2020. Now Eskom-esque tariff hikes loom too.