Executives flying into Cape Town for Africa’s biggest annual mining conference are immediately confronted by the city’s looming water crisis.
The city is reminding visitors to “only flush when you really need to” and there’s hand sanitizer instead of tap water at sinks in the conference center. Bath plugs are missing from hotel showers. And for jet-lagged executives or anyone who overindulges at the many cocktail parties, organizers say tea and coffee servings will be limited.
