If your week involves kettles, buckets and backup plans, you're not alone.
Cape Town is heading into a stretch of planned water disruptions as the City rolls out large-scale maintenance across its network, and this time, it's affecting a long list of suburbs with specific dates and time slots residents need to know.
While these interruptions are temporary, they form part of a broader effort to repair ageing infrastructure, install new pipelines and improve the reliability of the system long term, something that's become a priority in a city still shaped by the memory of water shortages.