Cape Town’s total dam levels top 100%

More rain this past weekend has seen Cape Town’s dam levels reach 100,8%.

Last year this time, dam levels were 75,4%. With dam levels increasing, there may be questions crossing residents’ minds about what this means for water use and resilience.

‘While we certainly welcome the healthy dam levels, we cannot allow this to give us a false sense of water security for the future. To help secure Cape Town’s water future, the City’s Water and Sanitation Directorate is focusing on its New Water Programme plans to bring an extra daily 300 million litres of water online by 2030.

‘Our water resilience is important for our residents and for economic growth in Cape Town. For this reason, we need more than just dams to ensure our water supply is resilient for years to come as clearly highlighted by our customers during the drought, to help navigate future climate shocks.

‘The City cannot achieve this on its own so we thank our residents for contributing to building our water-future be it from paying their water bills to making water-wise decisions in their daily lives,’ said the City’s Mayoral Committee Member for Water and Sanitation, Councillor Zahid Badroodien.

Cape Town’s dam levels are updated on the City’s website here