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Rain has been in short supply for much of the region in recent weeks, but that is no cause of concern for the local water supply.
In fact, Michael Miller, executive director of the Williamsport Municipal Water and Sanitary Authority, said the city's reservoirs are in great shape right now.
"The reservoirs at this point are 96 percent full. We have gotten a lot of rain where reservoirs are," he said.
Miller said there really is an abundance of water.
The city is using about five million gallons per day, he noted.
Each reservoir holds 530 million gallons of water.
"We have been doing pretty good," he said. "We still have a well field, which can support us, too."
Area streams including the Susquehanna River have been running low and grass on many lawns have lost their lush green color.
The rain that soaked the region Tuesday brought some relief from the dry, hot weather which has been the norm for much of the summer.
For the past thirty days through Tuesday, rainfall for the Williamsport area was 2.3 inches below normal, according to the National Weather Service.
July is normally the wettest month of the year in the city with an average of 4.3 inches of rainfall.
It is also the year's warmest month with an average high temperature of 83.7 degrees.
For August the average rainfall is 3.9 inches for the city.
Since Jan. 1, the rainfall is 4.5 inches below normal.
Williamsport averages 41.3 inches of rain per year.
It rains in the area an average of 132.8 days annually.
The two wettest years on record for Williamsport occurred in 2011 and 2018 when just over 70 inches of rain fell in the city, according to the National Weather Service.
Lycoming County Water and Sewer Authority officials were not available for comment for this story.