Australia and 'Rome'! 
You are entirely missing the point.... we don't know where we are except that if rains don't come we will have none by March 2018. Meteorologist forecasts are just that, based on long-term history and extrapolated forward with more unknowns than knowns! 
I haven't, if you read my post, commented on the W Cape Government but on Cape Town. What has been done.... by all accounts nothing much at all.... some tenders have been reissued iro desalinization plants.... on aquifers maybe some more but again WE DON'T KNOW.... because the politicians ain't saying anything!!