India’s 143 major reservoirs had live storage of 147.631 BCM or 83% of these reservoirs’ total capacity
Fifteen states have better live reservoir storage than the corresponding period last year. Photo: iStock Live storage in India’s reservoirs increased merely by 1 per cent this week, stated the Central Water Commission (CWC) bulletin released September 1, 2022.
Ten states in the country have reported excess or normal storage, between June 1 and September 1, according to Indian Meteorological Department.
The country’s 143 major reservoirs had live storage of 147.631 billion cubic metres (BCM), or 83 per cent of these reservoirs’ total capacity.
On August 25, the live storage for the same was 144.969 BCM, 82 per cent of their capacity. The live storage available in these reservoirs for the corresponding period last year was 115.247 BCM and the average for the last 10 years was 120.774 BCM.
It accounted for 128 per cent of the live storage of the corresponding period last year and 122 per cent of storage of the average of the last 10 years.
Fifteen states have better live reservoir storage than the corresponding period last year. They are — Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Odisha, Tripura, Nagaland, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and one more.
“Six states with lesser storage than the corresponding period last year are — Jharkhand, West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Andhra Pradesh,” stated the bulletin.
The number of reservoirs with storage more than last year is 104 and reservoirs with storage more than average for the last 10 years is 115.
The number of reservoirs with storage less than or equal to 20 per cent with respect to the previous year is three. Just one reservoir had storage less than or equal to 20 per cent with reference to the average of last 10 years.
Better-than-normal storage is available in Subarnarekha, Indus, Mahi, Sabarmati, Narmada, Tapi, rivers of Kutch, Godavari, Krishna, Mahanadi, Cauvery, etc. Close to normal storage is available in Ganga, it stated.
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