The Hume Dam, located near Albury, Australia is the largest dam on the River Murray and is an important part of the Murray Darling Irrigation System. It is often referred to as the Hume Weir. Lake Hume is an artificial lake formed by the Hume Dam. Because of the historic ten-year drought, it currently holds about 3% of capacity.    Hume Dam in better days [pdf] Hume Dam   2005 The Hume Weir Dam. Despite the pouring rain, water levels were low due to drought. Photo by sodolafami, Date uploaded: Jun 29, 2005   2007 The Hume Weir which is the major water source for all of the Wodonga / Albury area controls the flow of water down the Murray-Darling the weir is down to 3% capacity the trees in this pic are normally under water and now you can see the mud flats it is so hot and with bushfires burning over Victoria we are really experiencing Global warming and Greenhouse emmission for real. The Hume Weir at this time last year was at Capacity. Uploaded by: ozcazz, 2007 View north to the weir. Photo via Flickr. Uploaded on February 6, 2007. View southeast to Tallangatta. Photo via Flickr. Uploaded on February 6, 2007.   2009 Lake Hume, straddling the Victorian/New South Wales border, exposes once submerged trees after the dramatic drop in water level caused by a decade of drought. Torsten Blackwood / AFP / Getty Images) The shrinkage of the Hume Weir dam, near Bethanga, in the state of Victoria, left thousands of fish high and dry.