Dry summer water watch
Already under 40% full
8

Town, farm and regional supplies. Power-station lakes are not counted.

Exact values: 8 of 61 town, farm and regional supplies are under 40% of accessible capacity. Power-station lakes are not in this count. Also under 40%, but excluded: Great Lake (Tasmania) at 35.1%.

Would cross 40% before Christmas if it stays dry
0

Dry pace means each storage repeats its driest recent summer.

Exact values: Exact count: 0. Christmas is 25 December 2026.

Emptiest storage
Lake Menindee

A farming supply, not a town supply. Mundaring is the town supply already under the 40% line.

Exact values: Exact value: 0.0% full, 0 ML of 568,628 ML. Lake Menindee is a farming supply in New South Wales, not a town supply. Dry-path buffer: 0.0.

Lowest capital system · Perth
38.5%

Whole-of-city storages, as published this week.

Exact values: Exact value: 38.5% of 616,902 ML, 237,385 ML in storage. Last year 46.1% (-7.6 points).

New South Wales storages
57.7%

All reported NSW storages together, not only the ones tracked day by day.

Exact values: Exact value: 57.7%, 12,204,500 ML of 21,161,950 ML. A year ago 64.4% (-6.7 points).

Where the tracked supplies stand

Lake Menindee, 0.0% fullTantangara Reservoir, 2.9% fullSouth Dandalup, 9.1% fullFairbairn, 28.8% fullSerpentine, 31.6% fullBurrendong, 32.0% fullMundaring, 34.7% fullGreat Lake, 35.1% fullPindari, 36.2% fullKeepit, 52.7% fullBlowering, 62.7% fullGlenlyon, 53.6% fullCopeton, 54.1% fullLake Eildon, 58.6% fullCanning, 57.5% fullWyangala, 65.6% fullBurrinjuck, 69.4% fullCorin, 72.1% fullSugarloaf, 92.5% fullGrahamstown Lake, 62.9% fullAtkinson, 59.4% fullNorth Pine, 52.0% fullChichester, 82.0% fullSplit Rock, 85.0% fullCoolmunda, 98.9% fullYan Yean, 76.6% fullMyponga, 94.5% fullHappy Valley, 76.6% fullSerpentine Pipehead, 74.7% fullLeslie, 78.3% fullThomson, 68.8% fullGreenvale, 97.0% fullLeslie Harrison, 82.6% fullCardinia, 67.0% fullBendora, 79.4% fullLake Gordon, 64.4% fullWindamere, 79.2% fullMoogerah, 101.3% fullGlenbawn, 93.5% fullWivenhoe, 82.9% fullCotter, 100.0% fullSilvan, 87.1% fullSomerset, 79.9% fullBurdekin Falls, 80.9% fullTinaroo Falls, 81.0% fullGoogong, 99.2% fullUnder 40%, or on a dry path to get thereBetween 40% and 60%, or slipping this summerAbove 60% and holding on a dry summer

Exact values: dot size grows with accessible capacity. 17 tracked supplies have no published gauge position, so they are listed rather than mapped. Positions are the Bureau gauge matched to the storage name. Snapshot 15 November 2026, 9:27 AM AEDT.

Whole-of-state storages

New South Wales57.7%Tasmania68.1%Queensland73.2%Victoria73.7%Northern Territory78.8%Australian Capital Territory86.1%Western Australia86.2%South Australia97.3%

Exact values are the percent labels. These are every storage the Bureau rolls up, not only the 64 followed day by day.