szopen, it seems storage volume has always been fine until now, but conditions now are alot different. the worst drought in history and limited supply from the river is what has really broken the donkeys back. There is a very large project to upgrade the Mt Bold Storage underway, which will add further storage to the system. you could argue that we should have had a storage that would cater for one in however many years drought, but i would argue that back in the day that storages were going in that a drought such as this would have been unimaginable, with global warming etc. perhaps you are