At 8 March 2012, the reservoirs in the Canberra water collection area were 99.9% full, holding approximately 205.3 GL. At the same time in the previous year, these reservoirs were 100.0% full, holding 205.5 GL. Reservoir levels decreased by 0.1%, or 0.2 GL, over the year.
At 8 March 2012, the reservoirs servicing Canberra, Darwin, Hobart and Sydney were near 100% capacity while Perth had the lowest reservoir levels, at 24.1% full.
Information on reservoir levels is collected, standardised and disseminated by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). This information includes the total volume of accessible water stored in public water storage facilities (e.g. dams) with a capacity over one gigalitre (GL) as well as the total capacity of water storage facilities in the region (% full).
For more details, including daily updates of reservoir data, go to the BOM website linked above.
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