'Day Zero' never arrived in Cape Town, South Africa. Day Zero was the name given by Cape Town officials to the day in 2018 they would have to shut down water flows to most of the city taps because of inadequate water supplies—supplies that had run desperately short in the wake of an extreme three-year drought. Day Zero never came for two reasons First, those officials cajoled Cape Town residents into cutting water consumption in half. Second, the rains finally resumed a few months later.
In the face of increasingly abrupt crises without easy answers or temporary fixes which imply that things will return to normal, government and the businesses which live off them will face unprecedented challenges that require maximum flexibility and the courage to say and do things which the populace does not like. That does not sound like most governments that I know.