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After that i would add also an inline UV sterilization stage just to be even safer. If you have filters that will remove also chlorine, you can consider to remove the chlorination in-tank ( if you already have also an UV lamp to avoid in-tank contamination ) and move it after the inline UV stage. Even if your water isn't contaminated, adding a little bit of chlorination will help to avoid in-pipes bacterial growth.
## Laws and regulamentation of boreholes
When drilling a borehole you must pay attention of your local regulaments and national laws. Somewhere it's free and you can just drill, somewhere else you will need to ask for permissions and you have to respect limits.
In South Africa it's generally free to do it, but local regulaments can be emitted by province or municipalities as by-laws rules.
In Cape Town municipality is now mandatory to ask permission at least 14 days before to drill the borehole and then to register it, and since the gazette note on 12 January 2018 it's mandatory to install a metering device and communicate weekly to the administration how many liters of water you extract from underground.
Rumors, but i cannot find any confirmation nor any official document (yet?) is that the municipality will also limit the quantity of water you can extract soon to preserve underground water reserve.
Please, refer to [Cape Town: where to find data](/post/cape-town-drought-where-to-find-data/) to learn more about that and for links to official gazette.
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* Dams level from the city of cape town official web site in CSV and ODS format: https://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/opendataportal/DatasetDetail?DatasetName=Dam+levels
* Water dashboard with stats about Cape Town drought updated weekly in PDF format: https://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/City%20research%20reports%20and%20review/damlevels.pdf
* Water consumption data for the City of Cape Town, in various formats: https://web1.capetown.gov.za/web1/opendataportal/DatasetDetail?DatasetName=Water%20consumption
* Water By Law document about water resources in Cape Town: http://resource.capetown.gov.za/documentcentre/Documents/Bylaws%20and%20policies/Water%20By-law%202010.pdf
* 12 January 2018 gazette where you can find some new rules on boreholes ( text search for BREEDE, second match ) https://archive.opengazettes.org.za/archive/ZA/2018/government-gazette-ZA-vol-631-no-41381-dated-2018-01-12.pdf
### Web sites with more data that can be scraped
* Dams level, alternative city managed projects status and some official stats about drought: http://coct.co/water-dashboard/
