Metropolitan weekly water update - as at 10 May 2018

Note: 1 billion litres = approx. 400 Olympic swimming pools

Water use

Average daily water use over the last week was 775 million litres, which was above the forecast of 740 million litres.  Since 1 July 2017 we have used 250.47 billion litres of water, which is about 9 billion litres below the 259.5 billion litres we had forecast.

Dam levels

Over the last seven days, Perth’s dam storage levels have slightly fallen from 136.9 billion litres to 136.2 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).

Sprinkler roster compliance

The two-day-per week sprinkler roster now applies, and our inspectors issued 98 warnings and 51 fines last week.  Since 1 January 2018 we have taken a total of 3,741 actions (warnings + fines) compared with 4,237 actions for the same period in 2017.

Rainfall

Perth has received 6.2mm of rainfall so far this May - the average rainfall in Perth for May is 116.9mm. Since 1 January 2018, Perth has received 135.8mm of rainfall – cumulative average rainfall from January to May is 202.8mm.

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