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The City of Cape Town has urged residents and holiday-makers to remain water-wise over the festive period.
The City says the average water consumption increased by 46- million-litres per day to 587-million-litres per day in the past week.
Local authorities say this is still well within the current Level-3 usage range of 650-million litres of collective usage per day.
The levels of dams that supply Cape Town with water have declined by one-point-two per cent over the past week to 68.2%
This is compared to dam levels of 33.1% at the same time last year.