WEEKLY WATER DASHBOARD

02 November 2020

Headline Statistics

WCWSS DAM STORAGE WEEKLY DAM LEVEL CHANGE AVERAGE TOTAL

(%) (%) DAILY WATER USE
(MLD)

98.2 -1.00 709

Water Production from Different Sources

MAJOR DAMS MINOR DAMS GROUND WATER DESALINATION PLANTS

(MLD) (MLD) AND SPRINGS (MLD)
(MLD)

687 15 7 0

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 98.2% Weekly Change -1.0%

STORAGE
MAJOR DAMS (WCWSS) CAPACITY % % % % % %
Ml 02 November 2020 Previous week 2019 2018 2017 2016
BERG RIVER 130 010 99.7 99.9 100.4 99.3 68.4 72.8
STEENBRAS LOWER 33 517 94.1 95.8 100.9 86.1 53.4 58.7
STEENBRAS UPPER 31 767 83.5 91.8 88.7 71.3 99.9 88.4
THEEWATERSKLOOF 480 188 100.0 100.8 75.6 57.7 27.0 51.1
VOËLVLEI 164 095 96.2 97.0 89.9 96.0 28.5 70.2
WEMMERSHOEK 58 644 95.7 96.8 95.6 91.7 48.6 61.4
TOTAL STORED 898 221 881 878 891 349 759 190 668 785 343 459 539 080

% STORAGE 98.2% 99.2% 84.5% 74.5% 38.2% 60.0%

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)

1000000
Volume Stored (million litres)

900000
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 87.8 Weekly Change -2.53

STORAGE
MINOR DAMS CAPACITY % % % % % %
Ml 02 November 2020 Previous week 2019 2018 2017 2016
ALEXANDRA (Table Mountain) 126 77.6 80.6 71.9 73.7 68.2 38.5
DE VILLIERS (Table Mountain) 243 100.0 99.8 100.5 87.9 95.1 87.5
HELY-HUTCHINSON (Table Mountain) 925 88.7 95.3 100.2 97.8 99.8 99.7
KLEINPLAATS (Simon's Town) 1 368 93.6 94.7 85.2 95.3 66.8 85.2
LAND-EN-ZEEZICHT (Helderberg) 451 95.8 96.2 84.4 99.3 100.0 72.6
LEWIS GAY (Simon's Town) 182 98.7 100.9 66.5 83.8 85.7 74.7
VICTORIA (Table Mountain) 128 97.7 98.5 100.4 95.4 100.4 100.0
WOODHEAD (Table Mountain) 954 75.0 77.7 96.6 67.2 89.9 99.6

Total Stored 4 377 3844.7 3955.2 3936.6 3830.7 3718.7 3842.1

Percentages stored 87.8 90.4 89.9 87.5 85.0 87.8

Rainfall Recorded
Nov
RAINFALL (mm) 27-Oct 28-Oct 29-Oct 30-Oct 31-Oct 01-Nov 02-Nov
Total* LT Average
Blackheath Upper 0.0 7.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 27.1
Brooklands 0.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 50.8
Newlands 0.0 19.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 60.3
Steenbras 0.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 49.3
Table Mountain (Woodhead) 0.0 17.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 69.0
Theewaterskloof 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 36.4
Tygerberg 0.0 5.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 24.5
Voëlvlei 0.0 2.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 29.0
Wemmershoek 0.0 3.4 1.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 39.8
Wynberg 0.0 12.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 44.9
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 mountainous 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 (%)

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

Aug-20 99.21 98

Sep-20 99.20 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.