Water crisis: Storage availability India's 91 major reservoirs dipped
New Delhi, Apr 14: With the rising heat across the country, the water storage capacity of 91 reservoirs in India has dipped to 37.92 billion cubic metres, which is just 24% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs.
This
has
been
revealed
in
the
latest
bulletin
issued
by
the
Central
Water
Commission
on
April
13.
The
Central
Water
Commission
is
monitoring
live
storage
status
of
91
reservoirs
of
the
country
on
weekly
basis
and
is
issuing
weekly
bulletin
on
every
Thursday.
The dip in storage capacity in these reservoirs is outcome of less rainfall in 2014 and 2015. These reservoirs are likely to get sufficient water during the June-September period as Meteorological Department has predicted abundant rainfall this year.
Himachal, Punjab, Bengal, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Odisha, Gujarat, Maharashtra, UP, Uttarakhand, MP, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala have reported lesser storage than last year for corresponding period while only two states Andhra Pradesh and Tripura have reported better storage.
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The overall storage position is less than the corresponding period of last year in the country as a whole and is also less than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period, said the water commission.
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