Icebergs from the Antarctica might be towed to South Africa in an effort to solve Cape Town’s crippling water shortage.

Nick Sloane, Marine salvage expert, says he is looking for investments to help guide the icebergs towards South Africa before melting them down into millions of litres of drinking water.

South Africa has been in a state of disaster after two of its driest years on record in 2015 and 2016.