Tsogo Sun builds own water supply as 3-year Cape Town drought persists

South Africa’s biggest hotel and casino operator Tsogo Sun Holdings Ltd. is playing Moses to its guests by striking a rock and build its own water supply in the face of a tremendous drought that hit the country.

Bloomberg reported that the deepening water crisis in Cape Town, South Africa, has forced Tsogo Sun to build a desalination plant in its luxury seafront hotel to ensure that the guests will have free-flowing water available to them.

Tsogo Chief Operating Officer Ravi Nadasen pointed out that the alternative water supply will start operating by March, two months before city authorities closes the taps to residential suburbs.

“There is a plan in place that all of the alternative water sources will come on board before Day Zero comes,” Nadasen said, according to the news outlet. “The current situation in Cape Town is going to become the new normal. We’ve got to be responsible as well.”