Cape Town: protests against water shut-off Reservoirs around Cape Town, in the grip of its worst drought for a century, have gone largely unreplenished for more than three years in the absence of significant rainfall and are about to run dry. Residents are now ordered to use just 87 litres daily -- falling to 50 litres on February 1 -- to conserve supply. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of protesters demonstrating against the water shut-off