Stawell residents have been asking where has all our water gone, as reservoirs servicing the township appear seriously depleted.
Reservoirs that only months ago looked full, now have their dry walls exposed.
GWMWater communications manager Helen Friend, said the water had disappeared down Stawell resident's drains.
``The system only holds enough water to service the township for three months,'' Ms Friend said.
``People think it's their year long supply, it's not we have to continually top it up.''
GWMWater constantly monitors the levels of water in the reservoirs and top the system up when necessary with water sourced from the Grampians.
The system is currently holding 160megalitres of water, in the past month Stawell residents used 52megalitres.
Ms Friend this was evidence of the need for the Stawell community to remain on water restrictions.
``We have had some feedback from people in that community who don't understand why they needed to be on stage four water restrictions,'' Ms Friend said.
``Stawell is reliant on bulk water storages and that is why restrictions need to stay in place.''
Ms Friend said water losses from the reservoirs were primarily due to use, as evaporation does not have a real effect on storages at this time of year.
``In recent weeks we have transferred some water across from storage number six into storage number seven (the storage where the water treatment plant draws from), so this might explain the visual downturn that has been observed.''
The Bureau of Meteorology has recorded just 6.2millimetres of rain in Stawell this month. It rained on three days, with the largest rainfall of the month recorded on May 1, 3.4mm.
Stage four water restrictions look to be in place long into the future. With this month's rainfall expected to be well short of the May average rainfall of 55mm.