<Tr> <Td> Total stored (megalitres) </Td> <Td> 215 283 </Td> <Td> 191 843 </Td> <Td> 190 300 </Td> <Td> 279 954 </Td> <Td> 450 429 </Td> <Td> 646 137 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Total% Storage </Td> <Td> 24.0 </Td> <Td> 21.4 </Td> <Td> 21.2 </Td> <Td> 31.2 </Td> <Td> 50.1 </Td> <Td> 71.9 </Td> </Tr> <P> After good rains in 2013 and 2014, the city of Cape Town began experiencing a drought in 2015, the first of three consecutive years of dry winters brought on by the El Niño weather pattern and climate change . Water levels in the city's dams declined from 71.9 percent in 2014 to 50.1 percent in 2015 . Water restrictions, in place at "Level 1" since 2005, were increased to Level 2 on 1 January 2016 and to Level 3 on 1 November 2016 . </P> <P> Significant droughts in other parts of South Africa ended in August 2016 through heavy rain and flooding in the interior of the country, but the drought in the Western Cape remained . </P>

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