(Bloomberg) -- Bogotá scaled back water rationing after more than two months of restrictive measures, saying conservation and recent rainfall have helped replenish reservoirs.

Each resident of Colombia’s capital will now have to spend 24 hours without running water every 18 days, instead of every nine, starting in July. 

Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán cited the return of rains and adherence to municipal rationing in announcing the move Wednesday. “The measures have been positive, we’re on the right track,” he told reporters. “We’re entering a new stage that cannot be seen as one to relax and think that the crisis is over: It’s not.”

Bogotá’s goal is for the Chingaza system, which includes the Chuza reservoir and is where the city gets most of its water, to reach at least 70% of its total capacity by October when it’s set to peak. It’s now above 42%, having climbed steadily from less than 15% when rationing began in April.

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