Why is this? On the Northern Beaches we had so much rain this summer-I am puzzled as to how this has happened?
"It's the most rapid decline we've seen. It's more dramatic than the rate of depletion we saw in the lead-up to the Millennium Drought of 2001-2003."
@UNSWEngineering Professor Stuart Khan (@stukhan) says the drop in dam storages in Sydney is "extreme".https://www.sbs.com.au/news/sydney-water-restrictions-take-effect-after-extreme-drop-in-dam-levels …
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Yes, we had a big rainfall event in March, but it had little impact on Sydney’s catchment. Part of the reason is that after a hot, dry February, the catchment soils were dried out, thus they soaked up water instead of producing run-off to waterways.
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