To South Africa now, and the ongoing water crisis in the city of Cape Town. The city will run out of water completely in less than three months. The Minister of Water and Sanitation says she's confident the worst can be avoided, but some residents are protesting against what they're calling a mismanagement of water resources. CGTN's Renee Del Carme reports.

Addressing the Cape Town Press Club, SA's National Water and Sanitation Minister Nomvula Mokonyane said her department had prevented the loss of life during devastating drought conditions in other parts of the country in 2014.

NOMVULA MOKONYANE NATIONAL WATER & SANITATION MINISTER, SOUTH AFRICA "The immediate that we are doing, is to unite South Africans around more efficient water use and make everybody to appreciate the effects of climate change. We therefore need to ensure that even here in The City of Cape Town, water users must be provided with more information on how to save water, especially at household level, given that 70 percent of water is being used by domestic consumers."

Minister Mokonyane, whose first name, Nomvula, means "The Mother of Rain" in Zulu, said there was no substitute for water and it New no ideology.

Despite deep divisions between the ANC-run national government and the Democratic Alliance-run City of Cape Town, the minister said the water crisis needed to be depoliticized.

NOMVULA MOKONYANE NATIONAL WATER & SANITATION MINISTER, SOUTH AFRICA "We need to ensure that there's water for all. And not only water for some. Because water is a constitutional right. We must allay the fears of South Africans. And I can stand here as a fellow South African and say, Day Zero can be avoided."

Meanwhile, a crowd of Capetonians calling themselves the Cape Town Water Crisis Coalition say they've had enough of what they refer to as the political mismanagement of Cape Town's water crisis. 

RENE DEL CARME CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA Most people here say they do not trust what the politicians have to say about the drought. And say they cannot believe that a world-class city such as Cape Town was allowed to run out of water.

MUAATH GABIER PROTESTER "It is actually a catastrophe of colossal proportions. The City whose tag line is, best-run city, with no water. Those two things don't work in the same sentence. It's a failure of the officials. It's a failure of the city's governance. The failure of the Western Cape. We don't actually know what the cost of this is going to be. And they still don't have a plan. And they've got to stop lying."

The Minister will meet with Cape Town City officials again on Tuesday to continue working on ways to prevent Cape Town's worst drought from turning into a disaster. Rene Del Carme, CGTN, Cape Town, South Africa.