robert paterson has built this farming business up over three decades.means it relies on the power to pump water. basically every crop in the western cape, apart from wheat and rooibos tea, is irrigated. so the entire western cape is totally dependent on a reliable power supply, which we haven't got. the western cape is a mediterranean climate, so we have a long, hot summer period with basically no rain and then a relatively short winter when it is supposed to rain, but for the past seven years we've had way lower than average rainfall so we haven't been getting the winter rain that we need to fill our dams so that we can irrigate the orchards and vineyards and everything through the summer, so now we've become even more dependent on underground water. as i listen to you, i'm thinking this sounds like a nightmare scenario. you've got a long—term water shortage problem, which is being massively exacerbated by this immediate power problem. we only had this level of load—shedding from about january, february, so we have managed to survive this season, but i