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The major storage dams supplying Nelson Mandela Bay were at a combined 76.67% of capacity when the latest reading was taken on Monday, marginally up from 76.60% a week earlier.
The largest storage dam, the Kouga was at 83.12% of capacity, while the second largest, the Impofu was at 73.45%.
The Churchill Dam was at 58.24% of capacity and the Groendal at 99.59%.
The level of the Loerie had risen from 43.95% to 47.49%.
The Department of Water and Sanitation has meanwhile issued a warning that the metro faces another drought in 2015.
With that in mind, the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has appealed to consumers to conserve water as dam levels are only expected to increase slightly due to a lack of persistent rain in
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality Standing Committee Chairperson for Infrastructure, Engineering, Electricity and Energy Andile Mfunda urged residents to conserve water consumption.
This invariably means that consumption levels must be urgently reduced as analysis would like to suggest that water stored in our dams will be depleted within 18 months if the current consumption patterns persist and no significant inflow into the dams occurs over this period.
The present consumption is 270 Ml/day and could exceed 300 Ml/day during the summer months like what happened in January/February this year.
In order to preserve our resources we need to reduce our consumption to 250 Ml/day as was done during the previous drought," Mfunda said.
We are leading the way when it comes to water conservation and request the community to follow our example and together we will prosper.
The Metro is embarking on an aggressive leak detection programme which has resulted in a reduction of water losses.
Community based semi-skilled artisans are used to repair leaks at indigent households going beyond just water conservation as skills are development and people given an opportunity to improve their lives.
The Metro facilitated plumbing repairs at 20 schools thereby preventing significant water wastage.
