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'Day Zero': This city is counting down the days until its water taps run dry

CNN · Riaan Marais for CNN and Derek Van Dam, CNN
Photographs by Samantha Reinders and Riaan Marais for CNN
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A week ago, a dam in South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Bay was decommissioned as levels dropped too low to extract any actual water. Another is just days away from emptying out. Now much of the city is counting down to Day Zero, the day all taps run dry.