The last year of the last El Nino event, we were on a mellow yellow, and brown flush it period. We have a 1000 litre bowser, and the water was off 12 hours a day. Our village uses an aquifer.

We live on one of the dryest continents on earth for 9 months a year (Australia) and potable water is on tap.
Except for droughts when we can't water our lawns on every second Tuesday.

Yeah but in kangeroo land, the national goverment doesnt steal budgets, and they carry out maintenance and development of resources  correct, and actually plan, decreasing water resources have been on the cards in CapeTown for last 20 years, they were warned

To highlight  a few statements from the link i posted 


Two tiers of governance – the Western Cape province and the City of Cape Town – went above and beyond what was required to prepare for drought. The system failed, however, at the level of national government.

Wasteful expenditure in the national Department of Water and Sanitation, erroneous water allocations to agriculture and a failure to acknowledge or respond to provincial and municipal calls for help obstructed timely interventions.

National government’s numerous spanners jammed up the works of a system that could have managed the crisis quite effectively.

Provinces don’t have the power to make water allocations to agriculture. This is done by the national government.

In 2015, the city of Cape Town was allocated 60% of the water from the Western Cape’s water supply system. Almost all of the rest went to agriculture, particularly long-term crops like fruit and wine as well as livestock

In response to low winter rainfalls in 2015, provincial government took pre-emptive action and applied to national government for R35 million to increase water supplies by drilling boreholes and recycling water.

But national government rejected the request, possibly because dams were still 75% full

Can't they just import water?
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42841615

A news clipping someone sent me this morning from 1990....

The boat would be hujacked and said iceberg stolen the minute it entered SA waters