Heavy rainfall over the past few days has again had little impact on Canberra's water storages.
More than 30 millimetres of rain has fallen on the national capital this week.
But ACTEW's water manager, Aspi Baria, says no significant measurements were recorded in either the Googong or Cotter dams.
"Over the last three or four days, we had 30ml of rain in the Cotter catchment and poor Googong has had about 15 or so," she said.
"So there hasn't been that significant a rainfall in there.
"Because the ground was reasonably dry that hasn't translated into a larger infill into the dam," she said."
Pete's Points
It is interesting to note that when the Googong dam was built the designers all knew and stated that they expected this reservoir to last until around 1995 when the expected population growth would require additional supplies.
The planning and building of a dam takes around 10 years. Thus at some point around 1985 action should have been taken to plan and build a new dam in anticipation of the demand that was already known and predicted. No such planning took place and discussions only commenced on a new dam in the last year.
Let's all give thanks to those Ministers and senior public servants who are responsible for the thirst that both our plants, animals and of course we tax payers seem to be experiencing.
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