Clearing alien invasive plants helps drought-proof Cape Town! Impressive achievements by the City's Water Directorate and Greater Cape Town Water Fund: · 40,790 hectares cleared · Up to 13.1 billion litres of water saved annually · 722 green jobs created #CTNews

Invasive plants like pines, gums, and wattles cause a yearly loss of over 55 billion litres of water in our dam catchments. This could reach 100 billion litres within two decades. By the end of 2022/23, we'll have cleared 12,487 hectares, saving 8 million litres of water daily!

Sadly it's not only the "alien vegetation" that is "cleared". But there they go again. What about "Aliens" degrading, denuding, destroying land both sides N2 CT/SW? N2 at Grabouw? And the horror of Knoflokskraal N2 between Houwhoek/Hermanus. Begin by "clearing" those cesspools!

Sustained partnership and support from the @CocaColaCo Foundation and CocaColaPenBev as the initial funding partner has seen The Greater CT Water Fund produce great results in the past 5 years, led by @Nature_Africa Louise Stafford and team 👌🙏

Excellent work - keep it up- the Western Cape works -

Can the rest of wc folow suit please

So now we will have soil erosion…?

Excellent initiative, don't stop

In water scarce farming areas, there are far too many Eucalyptus and Wattle trees in SA and WC particularly. Make a plan to remove all Wattle and Port Jackson for starters.

My City 🙏🏾💙