Just had a quick peek at www.bom.gov.au/water/dashboards/#/water-storages/summary/state
Apparently WA is at 94% of water storage capacity...awesome! Pats on the back all round Water Corp! 
annnnnd then you look at the figures! 
The Ords capacity is roughly 10,431,000Ml (give or take a litre) the remaining 23 dams combined are a total of less than 100,000Ml
The Ord has 10,500,000Ml stored currently, the remaining 23 dams combined total is only 380,000 or 4% of the Ords volume. (and 3% of total stored volume)
The Ord is over capacity at 101%, the average for the remaining 23 dams is 46% with the highest (of any sensible capacity, Wellington) being only 75% full.
They then have the cheek to refer to the total Accessible capacity - accessible to who? 
WA population in 2006 (ABS) was 2.245 million... the Kimberlys? 35,000.
So there you go...
2% of WA's population has access to 97% of its water.
98% of WA's population has access to 3% of its water.
Soooooo glad we are getting that new waterfront in Perth though... 
From what I was told- Ord river water isnt for drinking- the locals have to drink treated bore water.
the Ord river dam water is for irrigation only
Don't worry... All is OK. The carbon tax will fix it.
Without the tax, Perth would get another new waterfront in a few years, and another a few years later as the anthropogenic carbon emissions cause global warming that will cause sea level rises.
its all good... except that only 3% of that is of any use to over 90% of WAs population... (and of that 3%, some of that is for irrigation only as well)
