Cape Town pained by third year of drought


South Africa's Western Cape region has gone without significant rains for more than three years, forcing South Africa's second city to slash residential water consumption by more than 60%. – AFP pic, March 19, 2018.

SOUTH African winemaker Marlize Jacobs looks out across the parched brown earth that sustains her award-winning vines, surveying the effects of the water crisis ravaging Cape Town and surrounding areas.

“It’s the strangest thing – I think vines like to suffer. When the berries are shrinking, there’s more concentration of flavours,” she said, describing the impact on her crop of the worst drought in 100 years.


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