WEEKLY WATER DASHBOARD
31 August 2020
Headline Statistics
WCWSS DAM STORAGE WEEKLY DAM LEVEL CHANGE AVERAGE TOTAL
(%) (%) DAILY WATER USE
(MLD)
90.7 2.70 633
Water Production from Different Sources
MAJOR DAMS MINOR DAMS GROUND WATER DESALINATION PLANTS
(MLD) (MLD) AND SPRINGS (MLD)
(MLD)
621 2 4 6
Overal Water Usage Trend (2010 - Present)
1 400
1 200
Water Use (MLD)
1 000
800
600
400
200
0
Dec-10
Dec-12
Dec-15
Dec-17
Nov-20
Dec-11
Dec-13
Dec-14
Dec-16
Dec-18
Dec-19
Nov-21
WCWSS means Western Cape Water Supply System
MLD means million litres per day
More information on Water Saving and Restrictions is available on the City of Cape Town's 'ThinkWater' website
Water Stored in Major Dams (WCWSS)
Overall Percentage Full 90.7% Weekly Change 2.7%
STORAGE
MAJOR DAMS (WCWSS) CAPACITY % % % % % %
Ml 31 August 2020 Previous week 2019 2018 2017 2016
BERG RIVER 130 010 100.8 100.4 99.4 96.3 56.1 68.1
STEENBRAS LOWER 33 517 98.8 95.3 102.2 85.6 37.1 70.3
STEENBRAS UPPER 31 767 99.0 98.9 92.8 101.3 100.4 101.2
THEEWATERSKLOOF 480 188 87.9 85.1 72.2 48.6 26.7 52.1
VOËLVLEI 164 095 88.9 84.5 87.7 70.9 25.5 65.1
WEMMERSHOEK 58 644 86.9 84.1 89.0 87.1 41.6 70.1
TOTAL STORED 898 221 814 344 790 658 735 462 586 845 311 793 542 366
% STORAGE 90.7% 88.0% 81.9% 65.3% 34.7% 60.4%
WCWSS Storage Record (2008 - Present)
,120
Percentage Full (%)
,100
,80
,60
,40
,20
,0
Feb-08
Feb-11
Feb-14
Feb-16
Feb-19
Feb-22
Feb-09
Feb-10
Feb-12
Feb-13
Feb-15
Feb-17
Feb-18
Feb-20
Feb-21
WCWSS Comparative Storage Graph (5 Years)
900000
Volume Stored (million litres)
800000
700000
600000
500000
400000
300000
200000
100000
0
1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53
WEEK NO
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
WCWSS Dam Storage and Water Use Tracking
900 100%
Gross storage of major dams
Gross storage of major dams (%)
800 90%
80%
700
70%
(million m³)
600
DANGER ZONE
60%
500
50%
CRITICAL ZONE
400
40%
300
30%
EMERGENCY
200 RESPONSE ZONE
20%
100 Water difficult to abstract from dams (10%)
10%
0 0%
04-Nov-19 04-Jan-20 04-Mar-20 04-May-20 04-Jul-20 04-Sep-20 04-Nov-20
Actual Dam Levels Projection of storage based on all users using their full alloactions
,400 ,225
Cumulative Weekly Usage
Cumulative Weekly Usage
,350 ,200
,300 ,175
,150
(million m3)
(million m3)
,250
,125
,200
,100
,150
,75
,100
,50
,50
CoCT
,25 Agriculture
,0 ,0
04-Jan-20
04-Jun-20
04-Aug-20
04-Nov-19
04-Dec-19
04-Sep-20
04-Oct-20
04-Apr-20
04-Jul-20
04-May-20
04-Feb-20
04-Mar-20
04-Feb-20
04-Jun-20
04-Nov-19
04-Dec-19
04-Jan-20
04-Apr-20
04-Aug-20
04-Sep-20
04-Mar-20
04-Oct-20
04-Jul-20
04-May-20
Target (MCM) Actual (MCM) Planned (MCM) Target (MCM) Cum Actual MCM Planned (MCM)
Water Stored in Minor Dams
Overall Percentage Full 94.2 Weekly Change 2.48
STORAGE
MINOR DAMS CAPACITY % % % % % %
Ml 31 August 2020 Previous week 2019 2018 2017 2016
ALEXANDRA (Table Mountain) 126 100.0 98.3 53.0 98.0 72.8 45.4
DE VILLIERS (Table Mountain) 243 100.9 100.0 100.0 100.3 81.4 99.1
HELY-HUTCHINSON (Table Mountain) 925 101.2 99.5 100.5 100.2 100.7 99.8
KLEINPLAATS (Simon's Town) 1 368 86.8 81.8 81.2 89.3 61.6 95.3
LAND-EN-ZEEZICHT (Helderberg) 451 87.5 85.7 78.5 100.0 70.5 57.1
LEWIS GAY (Simon's Town) 182 100.9 100.9 87.2 75.5 95.4 100.9
VICTORIA (Table Mountain) 128 100.8 99.6 99.3 101.5 101.2 87.5
WOODHEAD (Table Mountain) 954 101.0 99.8 78.7 69.0 95.9 99.9
Total Stored 4 377 4121.3 4012.8 3695.1 3852.4 3565.9 3970.5
Percentages stored 94.2 91.7 84.4 88.0 81.5 90.7
Rainfall Recorded
Aug
RAINFALL (mm) 25-Aug 26-Aug 27-Aug 28-Aug 29-Aug 30-Aug 31-Aug
Total* LT Average
Blackheath Upper 2.5 0.0 1.5 12.0 7.0 0.0 73.2 77.7
Brooklands 0.0 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 1.0 126.0 135.1
Newlands 11.5 0.0 2.5 30.0 6.0 0.0 277.5 237.0
Steenbras 14.0 0.0 3.0 36.0 10.0 0.0 254.3 127.1
Table Mountain (Woodhead) 39.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 214.0 215.8
Theewaterskloof 7.3 0.0 2.3 16.4 15.2 0.0 102.9 76.0
Tygerberg 6.3 0.0 1.5 13.2 7.4 0.0 96.3 86.5
Voëlvlei 0.0 0.0 0.0 28.0 5.0 0.0 94.8 90.2
Wemmershoek 10.0 0.0 7.5 37.0 10.1 0.0 230.7 146.0
Wynberg 7.5 0.0 2.0 2.0 5.0 0.0 178.0 191.1
Notes: *Total/cummulative rainfall for month indicated above
LT: Long Term
Accumulated Monthly Rainfall at Wemmershoek
Note: Wemmershoek station used due to long record and mountaneous location
1800.0
1600.0
1400.0
1200.0
Rainfall (mm)
1000.0
800.0
600.0
400.0
200.0
0.0
NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT
Drinking Water Quality
SAMPLE PASS RATE
Month Water Quality Compliance (%) Target (%)
May-19 99.08 98
Jun-19 99.09 98
Jul-19 99.04 98
Aug-19 99.02 98
Sep-19 98.99 98
Oct-19 99.03 98
Nov-19 99.14 98
Dec-19 99.09 98
Jan-20 99.07 98
Feb-20 99.08 98
Mar-20 99.17 98
Apr-20 99.16 98
May-20 99.20 98
Jun-20 99.19 98
Jul-20 99.22 98
Notes:
This table shows CCT drinking water quality compliance according to the South African National Standard 241:2015. Compliance, measured against
all prescribed chemical and microbiological components, consistently exceeds the very high CCT target of 98%. (Overall compliance percentages of
continuous sampling and analysis are released on a monthly basis.
