Melbourne's water supply buckling under population growth, AI

Описание: Melbourne's water supply buckling under population growth, AI

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Melbourne is desperate for water as a drier climate, a growing population, and a boom in data centres all threaten to use up the city’s vulnerable supply.

Much of Victoria experienced lower-than-average rainfall in 2025, and the water stockpile is historically low, according to the state government’s Annual Water Outlook.

This month, major storage facilities across the state were 61 per cent full, compared with 80 per cent at the same time in 2024.

Melbourne’s water storage was at 76 per cent capacity, trending 12 per cent lower than this time last year.

Those levels would have been even lower if the government hadn’t ordered 50 billion litres of desalinated water from the Victorian Desalination Plant, which turns seawater into drinking water near Wonthaggi.

If the weather remained dry, Melbourne and Geelong could face “severe” water restrictions in 2026, even with the desalination plant operating at full capacity, the report warned.

It comes after many Victorian towns have already endured water restrictions in 2025, for the first time in five years.

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