Metro weekly water update 20 July 2018

Note: 1 billion litres = approx. 400 Olympic swimming pools.  Please note these figures are rounded (except for rainfall) to the nearest whole number.

Water use

Average daily water use over the last week was 576 million litres, which was slightly above the forecast of 563 million litres.  Since 1 July 2018 we have used 11 billion litres of water, which is about one billion litres more than what we had forecast.

Dam levels

Over the last seven days, Perth’s dam storage levels have increased (by 5 billion litres) from 159 billion litres to 164 billion litres of usable storage. Perth’s dams store water from three different sources… groundwater and desalinated seawater transferred from treatment plants as well as streamflow (produced by rainfall).

Streamflow

Over the last seven days Perth’s dams (15 dams in total) have received about three billion litres of streamflow.  Since May, they have received about 18 billion litres of streamflow.

Sprinkler roster compliance

The Winter Sprinkler Switch-off now applies, and our inspectors issued 121 warnings and 16 fines this week.  Since 1 January 2018, we have taken a total of 5371 actions (warnings + fines) compared with 6418 actions for the same period in 2017.

Annual rainfall

Perth has received 415.4mm of rainfall since January this year.  According to updated figures released by the Bureau of Meteorology the cumulative mean rainfall (1994-2017) for the Perth metro for the January to July period is 450.1mm.

General water news

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