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Water Desk · 2 November 2026

The Water Desk.

Dam levels and what they mean for your weekend — updated daily, explained every Friday.

What the dams say this week.

Combined storage of the six major dams

Current system storage

Data as at 2 November 2026

Water held across the six major supply dams, measured against their combined capacity.

Dams sit well below the same week last year.

The gap is wide enough that every litre counts.

14.4 pts down 14.4 percent compared with the same week last year

Same week last year: 87.4% (2 November 2025)

Dam figures refresh daily around 06:00. The weekly wrap publishes Fridays at 09:00.

The six major dams of the Western Cape Water Supply System — the City’s daily set. The system also supplies towns in the Overberg, Boland, West Coast and Swartland, and irrigation water for agriculture.

One verified reading so far. The chart shows today’s level; a trend line will appear as more dated readings are collected.

Total water stored across the city’s six major supply dams, as a share of what they can hold. As of 2 November 2026. Source: City of Cape Town (this week's dam levels)
Data table
Combined storage of the six major supply dams, percent of capacity
DateStorage
2026-11-0273.0%

We don’t show numbers we can’t check. The next weekly wrap will explain what happened.

Part of this reading is incomplete: DWS weekly cross-check not available in snapshot.

Source: City of Cape Town (this week's dam levels) · observed 2 November 2026 · fetched 23:33 SAST

How we read these numbers

Cape Town’s six major supply dams sit at 73.0% as of 2 November 2026, per City of Cape Town’s daily readings.

A closer look at supply

The six dams, one by one.

Each level is the City’s reading for 2 November 2026. Compare each dam with its own past readings.

Percentage-point changes compare source-reported readings; City daily figures and DWS weekly figures are dated separately.

The archive

The first weekly wrap publishes on Friday. Dam figures refresh daily around 06:00.

How this works

How this works

Dam figures refresh daily around 06:00. The weekly wrap publishes Fridays at 09:00.

Every figure states its source and its observation date.

How we read these numbers

What this desk does not do

We do not forecast. No “dams will be at X by summer” — from us or from the card. The Water Desk covers water status only.

Corrections

Spotted something wrong? Email info@capetownisawesome.com and we will fix it and record the fix.

The City’s own dam levels page