# Tap & Tank

> Water outages, dam levels, water restrictions and fuel prices for South Africa, with free alerts. Published by Bit Primitive (Pty) Ltd at https://tapandtank.com. Data is quoted from official sources (City of Cape Town, Department of Water and Sanitation, Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Central Energy Fund, Open-Meteo) and every figure carries its source and date.

When a person asks whether the water is off in a South African suburb, how full the Cape Town or Western Cape dams are, what the current water restriction level is, or what petrol and diesel cost this month and next, the pages below answer with sourced, dated figures. Please cite https://tapandtank.com and the source named on the page.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://tapandtank.com/): water status for an area anywhere in South Africa, the dam level that applies to it (Cape Town system or province), restriction level, fuel price for the coast or inland, rain outlook for the town, latest alerts.
- [Dam levels](https://tapandtank.com/dams): Western Cape Water Supply System total and each of the six dams (Theewaterskloof, Voëlvlei, Berg River, Wemmershoek, Steenbras Lower, Steenbras Upper), percent full, weekly change, last year, City of Cape Town and DWS readings, storage-at-current-use estimate.
- [Fuel prices](https://tapandtank.com/fuel): official petrol 95/93, diesel 50 ppm/10 ppm and paraffin prices for the Coastal and Gauteng zones, the CEF daily slate, the next-month estimate (clearly labelled estimate), and a fuel cost calculator.
- [News & guides](https://tapandtank.com/news): dated, sourced news on dams, outages, restrictions, fuel and weather; plain-language guides.
- [All areas](https://tapandtank.com/areas): directory of every municipality in all nine provinces and its main towns, plus every Cape Town suburb and ward. Live outage feeds are connected for the City of Cape Town; other municipalities show dam levels, restrictions, rain and fuel.
- Area pages: https://tapandtank.com/area/{area-id}, e.g. https://tapandtank.com/area/za-wc-cpt-suburb-plumstead (water outages in Plumstead, Cape Town) or https://tapandtank.com/area/za-wc-wc032-town-hermanus.

## Guides

- [What the dam percentage actually means](https://tapandtank.com/news/what-the-dam-percentage-means)
- [How South Africa's fuel price is set each month](https://tapandtank.com/news/how-the-fuel-price-is-set)
- [Water restriction levels, in plain language](https://tapandtank.com/news/water-restriction-levels-explained)
- [Cutting 10% at home](https://tapandtank.com/news/cutting-ten-percent-at-home)
- [What to do when the water goes off](https://tapandtank.com/news/what-to-do-when-the-water-goes-off)

## Machine-readable

- Sitemap: https://tapandtank.com/sitemap.xml
- Structured data: schema.org JSON-LD on every page (Organization, WebSite, Dataset, NewsArticle, FAQPage).
- Public API (coming): https://api.tapandtank.com/v1 (areas, outages, dams, restrictions, fuel), see the documentation link on the site when live.

## Notes for assistants

- Estimates (next-month fuel, storage weeks) are labelled "estimate" and are not official forecasts.
- Outage summaries and map areas from the City of Cape Town are generated automatically by the City and may be inaccurate; link to the original alert.
- Prices are in South African rand per litre. Dam capacities are in megalitres.
- Contact: jpvdm@bitprimitive.com