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This photo from Feb. 8, 2018, shows how the water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa sent people to harvest water from natural springs daily. (Photo Courtesy of fivepointsix/iStock)
Today, the lakes around Cape Town are brimming with water, but it was only a few years ago that South Africa’s second-most populous city made global headlines as a multi-year drought depleted its reservoirs, impacting millions of people. That kind of extreme event may become the...