Cape Town, South Africa's "Day Zero" - the day that the reservoirs will run dry and nothing will come out when people turn their taps - has been pushed back a month. 

Two new factors will assist the drought-stricken city:  Other regions of South Africa have agreed to donate about a billion liters of water; and agricultural water use has drastically dropped off.  Neither factor will stop Day Zero from coming.  But instead of coming on 12 April, officials now project it to come on 11 May.

"Capetonians must continue reducing consumption if we are to avoid Day Zero," said Cape Town Deputy Mayor Ian Neilson.  "There has not been any significant decline in urban usage.  All Capetonians must therefore continue to use no more than 50 liters per person per day to help stretch our dwindling supplies," he added.

Cape Town enacted restrictions and tariffs on water use from last Thursday.  The goal is to stretch out the water supply until the rainy season arrives in June, although there's absolutely no guarantee there will be enough precipitation to solve the drought emergency.

Neilson said the city is planning on building more desalination plants, although there's absolutely no way any such project will be completed by June.