According to the Queensland Water Commission there is just two months supply of water left and 11,000-litre trucks will bring in around five or six loads of water in the next week, increasing to six or seven truckloads per day if the storage level falls 50 centimetres below the top of the weir.
 

Dan Spiller, Queensland Water Commission spokesperson said: “We asked residents at Maleny two months ago to reduce their consumption to 200 litres per person per day, just as we are asking residents across south-east Queensland. They've done that, but in the last couple of weeks that consumption has increased slightly. So we're encouraging people to help us and reduce their consumption back down to 200 litres per person per day.”
 

The residents of Maleny have no independent water supply and are waiting for work to finish on the construction of a pipeline connecting the town to the grid.