It doesn't matter how the supply is calculated. The fact is, it's gone up. By a lot this month. Every week since January, there has been a net income of days left. It's gone from 150 days to 240 days in a period of 5 weeks.

Lake Michie is only 3 feet below what is considered full. Little River is at 335 feet, well above the record low set a few years ago. In addition, the water levels of both have been steadily rising.

"There is no water shortage and the Durham City Council bloody well knows that. We haven't even passed the record low lake levels set in 2002."

Umm, sorry, but that's just wrong.

First of all, our 243 days of supply assumes current usage rates, which are always low in the winter due to cooler temperatures (which means less loss to evaporation, less use of cooling towers by industrial and institutional users, etc.)

Adjust for spring/summer/fall use and you're going to see demand up from ~20 MGD to 30 MGD, meaning we'd have only about 160 days of supply.

Take away the flow from Cary -- always a possibility if Raleigh gets desperate for water -- and you're into ~135 days.

NC DENR, experts at Triangle JCOG, the US gov't., and the Nicholas School at Duke all tell us this is a drought without recent precedent. We need to increase our supplies -- and conserve.

Conspiracy theorists would do well to shape their tin-foil hats to catch any sporadic rain and run it into a water bottle.

Is this "legal council" that they checked with the same one who couldn't cut it as City Manager and has been demoted to City Attorney

i think this meeting is LONG over due!

Since last week, the water supply has gone from having 214 days of water remaining to 243 days of water remaining. And that's not counting last night's rain.

Lake Michie is only 3 feet below what is considered full. And again, that's not counting last night's rain.

There is no water shortage and the Durham City Council bloody well knows that. We haven't even passed the record low lake levels set in 2002.