Cape Town may have conserved enough water to avoid running out this year.

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By Zoya TeirsteinMar 7, 2018, 4:42 pm413 pts
The South African city received record-low rainfall in 2017. That, paired with a three-year drought that climate change may have made worse, forced Cape Town to take drastic steps to avoid Day Zero — the day that millions of taps run dry. City officials first projected Day Zero would arrive in March, but…

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