Kalgoorlie-Boulder, a historic mining city in Western Australia, is making progress in plans to “drought-proof” the region.

The city recently removed its water restrictions after a unanimous vote by City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder councillors during a recent council meeting. 

A report presented during the meeting revealed that the city's dams currently hold approximately seven months' worth of water supply.

Between February and May, the city's dams collected an impressive 4,204 kilolitres of recycled water and stormwater.

Mayor John Bowler has expressed satisfaction with the significant efforts made to prevent the need for future restrictions. 

He says the city plans to build new pumping infrastructure and additional storage dams to bolster water reserves. 

“We intend to dig another dam behind the racecourse to capture more water there, and I think there are another one or two sites where we could capture more water,” Cr Bowler said. 

“We need to make our effluent system more efficient and basically drought-proof Kalgoorlie-Boulder so we never have to do again what we did back in February.”

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