S outh Africa’s Western Cape (WC) with its agriculture-based economy and reservoir-based water supply system, is vulnerable to drought, and during 2015–19 it experienced a multiyear drought condition. A recent… Click to show full abstract
S outh Africa’s Western Cape (WC) with its agriculture-based economy and reservoir-based water supply system, is vulnerable to drought, and during 2015–19 it experienced a multiyear drought condition. A recent study (Otto et al. 2018) reported that anthropogenic influence increased the likelihood of exceeding rainfall reduction over the Cape Town region during the first three years of that drought (2015–17) by a factor of 3. During that period, Cape Town experienced a water crisis threatening
               
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