Transcript for Cape Town awaits 'Day Zero,' when the drought-plagued city runs out of water

Hello and welcome to pay. Overtime games on the thing ABC news and abcnews.com and you can watch this on FaceBook as well we're live streaming and what hey. Because I think talent here is an Africa is running out of water. They have announced that there's so little walls and now it's easy knots on May eleventh. The toxic and run driver. Well we all know. Spring. There's something like seventy of them around it's any different. I that. Table mountain and a stunning it is a beautiful beautiful. De enemies is that the end of the day people and coming team and next. Long day and this is building its on the day of people. Come along the back kind of and he didn't bring me. Then you're about to Valencia fifty pizzas. Yeah green offensive we'll wait and see everything they had been out of that top when they do in. Come downs one of these natural springs law. Tonight that their roles these around Cape Town people. Hello I can't. Totally sealed a few times we've been living. 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She's dropped from what you would ordinarily be able that's what people turn out. Until things up. You've been listening to open ended Graham. How he's getting. It is created you can just because of the line continues to enough and today he finishing. Visiting them. In the back. Pretty. You can imagine you know. Today even Lawson. We really stories of people news who happen to think. Using my daily basis we'll get up in the morning and of the bucket but he's up to. Life shall we they have same wards and oh yeah that's maybe even dishes and finally has dominated. Parody something like average flushing Emily knowing anything. Lots of water going down between us and people are trying to think of ways they can best use them. Some people might say that the climate change experts climatologist it was too FiOS about the warming of the planet because that's happening. Big parts of the world. Detroit now we have the same problem in the US and California drought. Australia they've had been. 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I'm going to be getting hit your questions or need a stunning now they get he's being. I am come on grandma get felt coming out there that. She's had enough and wakes him up. We getting a lot of questions about why this time. That it will be turnout is because there's been massive drought and and we going to console just days but some of this idea about why they didn't plan benefited some basic quite simply. But exceptionally dry weather that was the reason gains and nevertheless is a pretty serious situation and they doing is cutting off people. Restricting how much woods watching it looks if you drink who'll take out. They're trying to get a massive that levels of consumption down. Cape Town for the moment around 550. Million. Leases can seem today that was in. Gallons Americans on incidently what was a brother who is. Clusters a gallon. I'm giving him points are going to violent we'll look at out. To give you some idea if you just think about that number 500000550. Minute amendment means getting down to 400. Hundred million need to date people need to company supplies and actually have the last few weeks. It's not really been looking. On a sixteen. Most of the savings come from farmers from agricultural. Along the downs in South Africa in fact as I'm being told here is its new appointees six school. Needs is in a gallon. So they react minute music. When everything starts blow job. 212 dollars and fifty days with his. Which is dated right to vote on anything yet twelve gallons a day is basically what people are now. If you think about it then use a law would welcome it states. It was a the issue is that seen any role that downs in this country. And private hands that's my files and downs. At some of the Beagle won there in the government hospitals many many of them point. Flawless and the ones have been planning. And they've been able to donate money. Sorry tonight wanted to Cape Town that me reaching its the city's front again. People. People I think it's mixed. Fifteen people and stay thinking. And these guys giving him away before police did you see it you can see an evil people of the select home. He's big he's become assistant. That consulate but what kind of these guys of Olympic. Those stories to try to take back. The State's some of the no one and it's easy video. Has both at this point. Like president in Maine that is today planned this disease. Underlying everyone we spoke in two days saying they're hoping it doesn't happen. If it does something like 75%. Of households across Cape Town topsy. How dry top. Million people a lot of people it was people like this that I think. We'll be covering it over the next few days cave in Cape Town keep watching on ABC news. Things equally as in years. Gentlemen and ABC news.

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