Metro weekly water update 5 April 2019

	Target	Actual
April water use to date	4 billion litres	4 billion litres
Dam storage levels	N/A	47 per cent
Cumulative streamflow into dams	185 billion litres (Post 1975 May to March average)	153 billion litres
April rainfall to date	37.2 mm (April mean rainfall 1994-2017)   44.2 mm (April average rainfall 1876-2016)	0 mm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 water use over the last week was 885,000,000 litres (885 million litres) per day, which was above the forecast of 873,000,000 litres (873 million litres).

 

Daily water use for the last five days
Date	Actual water use – litres	Forecast – litres
Friday, 5 April 2019	820,000,000	860,000,000
Thursday, 4 April 2019	896,000,000	860,000,000
Wednesday, 3 April 2019	850,000,000	860,000,000
Tuesday, 2 April 2019	881,000,000	860,000,000
Monday, 1 April 2019	927,000,000	889,000,000

Note: water use above is calculated up to 8am each day for the previous 24 hour period

 

Since 1 July 2018, we have used 227 billion litres of water - this is about four billion litres above what we had forecast. 

 

Dam level (total for 15 dams)

 

The dam storage level has not changed over the past week and is sitting at 46.7 per cent* of full capacity.

 

*Please note some dams are filled from different sources - dam levels include the transfer of groundwater and desalinated seawater from treatment plants as well as streamflow (that comes from rainfall).  Dam levels are no longer an accurate indicator of the health of Perth's overall water supply situation.

 

Streamflow (total for 15 dams)

 

From 1 May 2018 to 28 March 2019 the dams had received 152.7 billion litres of streamflow.  The post-1975 average for the May to April period is 187.2 billion litres.

 

Sprinkler roster compliance

 

The two-day-a-week sprinkler roster now applies across Perth, so make sure your sprinklers are programmed for your rostered water days and only to come on once, either before 9am or after 6pm.

 

Our team of inspectors issued 67 warnings and 74 fines this week.  Since 1 January 2019, we have taken a total of 2701 actions (warnings + fines) compared with 2783 actions for the same period in 2018.

 

Annual rainfall

 

Perth has received 13 mm of rainfall since 1 January 2019.  Average (1994-2017)  rainfall for this period is 87.9 mm.

 

General water news

 

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