Asked Questions Things we can do at home Water Supply Services Lake Kurwongbah Council's Demand Management Strategy Water for Pine Rivers is taken from the North Pine River, Lake Kurwongbah and the North Pine Dam. This water has fallen from the sky as rain into the water source, or it may have flowed there over the land and through smaller rivers. This water is part of the water cycle. This is the natural cycle of water.
Water falls from the sky as rain and is then evaporated up into the sky by the sun.
From here it forms a cloud and rain falls. The cycle begins all over again. When water flows into a drinking water source some of it is evaporated from the surface of the river, lake or dam and does not make it to the water treatment plant , but most of the water does travel through to the water treatment plant. This water will once again join the water cycle when it has been used, sent to the wastewater treatment plant, treated and released into the river or onto the ground. All Pine Rivers water sources are within the Shire, however, they are not all operated by Pine Rivers Shire Council.