Water grid falls to lowest level after summer since Millennium Drought
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South-east Queenslanders are being urged to use less water as the region’s dams hit their lowest levels after summer since the devastating Millennium Drought.
The south-east Queensland water grid was sitting at 56.7 per cent on Thursday.
One of Wivenhoe Dam’s outflow gates in January.
Credit:Tony Moore
Authorities were due to consider the full restart of the controversial Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme after predictions of a wetter-than-usual summer did not eventuate.
Wivenhoe Dam, south-east Queensland’s biggest water storage unit and the main supply of water for Brisbane and Ipswich, was at a dismal 36.3 per cent, its lowest level in more than a decade.