The City of Cape Town\u2019s Water and Sanitation Department has launched a new dedicated website which will form an integral part of its three-year \u2018Keep Saving Water\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n
The website takes the existing campaign to the next level, offering a range of online information, including:<\/p>\n
The website provides residents, students, learners, educators and researchers with access to a range of information related to saving water in a user-friendly, attractive package. <\/p>\n
It was specifically designed as a stand-alone site, at\u00a0for ease of reference and access, but also has a link to the Water and Sanitation Department\u2019s main website. <\/p>\n
Visitors to the website can become Water Ambassadors in their communities by adopting the Water Ambassador Pledge, which is available for download in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa. <\/p>\n
Ambassadors simply need to download the pledge, print and sign it, and display it in a prominent position at their home, school, social clubs or place of work as an indication of their commitment to the Keep Saving Water campaign. <\/p>\n
The pledge requires that Water Ambassadors:\u00a0<\/p>\n
Water Ambassadors also need to know the City\u2019s channels of contact relating to water issues so that they can report water wastage, pipe bursts, leaking water meters etc. <\/p>\n
Any such reports can be directed to the City\u2019s Call Centre on 0860 103 089, or via e-mail to watertoc@capetown.gov.za\u00a0or via SMS to 31373 (these details are also on the website). The City is excited about the launch of the \u2018Keep Saving Water\u2019 website, which will advance the City\u2019s objective of ensuring that all households, agricultural communities and businesses will have sufficient information at hand to save water daily and thereby assist the City in meeting its water saving targets. All Capetonians have a role to play and can do that by taking responsibility for saving water wherever possible.<\/p>\n
Background on the Keep Saving Water campaign<\/strong> <\/p>\n The Keep Saving Water campaign, launched by Executive Mayor Alderman Patricia de Lille in 2011, aims to encourage water savings across the city in order to reach the City\u2019s operational target of 27% savings per year during this period. <\/p>\n The awareness component of the campaign is intensified during summer with print and radio marketing under the slogan: \u2018Summer time means saving more\u2019.<\/p>\n This is further supported by the education and awareness sessions that are presented by the City\u2019s Water Conservation teams at schools, businesses, religious institutions, non-governmental organisations, community-based organisations, governmental departments and within communities. During these sessions partnerships with other existing programmes are developed to grow the City\u2019s water conservation efforts. <\/p>\n The campaign has three key objectives:<\/p>\n As part of our commitment to being a Caring City, it is important that we maintain, and in fact intensify, our efforts to keep saving water in order to sustain a good quality of life for all our residents. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The City of Cape Town\u2019s Water and Sanitation Department has launched a new dedicated website which will form an integral part of its three-year \u2018Keep Saving Water\u2019 campaign. The website takes the existing campaign to the next level, offering a range of online information, including: Water saving tips Alternative water resources Borehole registration procedure Educational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,1737,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-17665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-cape-town-2","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-municipality","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n