water water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Personal responsibility has been a huge part of the social movement here to save water, and the stressing of each person’s duty to the city we share has been a really interesting thing to witness. As I write this on April 14th, I’m happy to say that the projected date is now in 2019. The date for Day Zero has progressively been rolled back as water usage has been cut citywide when students on our program arrived in late January, April 16th was the day to watch. Seriously, come and see for yourself! The water crisis is currently less of a crisis and more of an inconvenience that can be avoided by acclimatizing yourself to some new habits. So, is it? Do I not have enough water to drink, shower, wash dishes, etcetera? The answer to these questions is all the same: it’s fine. Not surprisingly, tourism has dropped off as tourists and even international students wonder whether or not it’s safe to stay in Cape Town. Hearing this, it’s easy to be startled, especially as water restrictions have become increasingly stringent. This is the term for when the water supply will be turned off, making Cape Town potentially the first major metropolitan center to run out of water. In the past couple months, major news outlets like TIME and the New York Times have even caught wind of the situation and published informative pieces and short documentaries, and when dam levels were projected to fall below critically low levels, the city announced plans for the (very ominous-sounding) “Day Zero”. Since 2015, Cape Town and its overall province have been warily watching dam levels decrease, all the while praying for rain and making contingency plans. Maybe the next time you have a sudden burst of thirst when you're stranded on the john you can bust this one out… to yourself, hopefully.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Marinerįor a city surrounded by water (looking at you, Atlantic Ocean), Cape Town has been growingly increasingly drier. But hey, that doesn't mean it's pretentious. Yeah, we can't really think of anything else. We admit this quotation is a bit situational-like, um, when you're stranded on a ship in the ocean without any fresh water. If you were to drop this quote at a dinner party, would you get an in-unison 'awww' or would everyone roll their eyes and never invite you back? Here it is, on a scale of 1-10.

This quote is some seriously low-hanging fruit for just about anyone looking for a title about water.Ĭreating a precipitation education page? A National Geographic issue about oceanography? A World of Warcraft quest where you…water crops? Look no further than 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.' Pretentious Factor We never really get to know what that mariner was thinking, but pretty soon he'll have a lot more to worry about than being parched.īatten down the hatches, boys. How's that for rain on your wedding day? Of course, it's also a very important point in the poem where everything starts to go downhill…or up current.

In fact, even the boards of the ship are beginning to shrink from lack of water.īut why can't they get water? Because they're stranded in a boatload of water. The sailors are dehydrated and might start dying of thirst if they don't find something to drink. This is when our quote comes in, as they're lying stagnant without a fair wind to stretch their sails.īut what is the quote itself about? Well, to start, the whole thing is dripping with irony. That's when they change back to their original position that the albatross, surely, was good luck, flip-flopping like a fish out of water.or a politician. Soon their friendly breeze dies completely, and they're stranded in the motionless ocean. But when the mist and fog depart, they change their minds and are glad it's dead.because it must have been bad luck. Part II begins with the sailors being angry because their good luck charm is gone.

Part I of ' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' finishes with that good-for-nothin' mariner killing the albatross.

Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink