The Water Security Agency says Saskatchewan’s Water Supply conditions have improved for July.

The WSA says while rainfall varied across the province in June, lake and reservoir levels across most of Saskatchewan are normal.

In the Southeast, lower than normal rainfall helped dry out areas that had become saturated after back to back extreme weather events. There was heavy localized rainfall that generated high runoff and some flooding of agricultural land in the Kronau and Marsh area.

East central and northeast areas of the grain belt saw higher than normal precipitation which the WSA says led to generally wet conditions.

For the southwest, there was above normal rainfall and it has helped continue to improve conditions from last year’s extremely dry conditions but the Water Security Agency says most of this region still has below normal moisture levels.

Lake Diefenbaker, which had water levels so low the Riverhurst Ferry wasn’t operational at the beginning of the season, now has inflows that are above normal and raising water levels thanks to a significant precipitation event in Alberta.

That same heavy rainfall in Alberta also impacted the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River Basin generating above normal flows on the North Saskatchewan River and ultimately on the Saskatchewan River.

In the Qu’appelle River System nearly all the lakes are sitting near the top of their summer operating ranges and as long as there is continued normal precipitation the lakes are expected to maintain a water level near the targets set for summer.