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Water storage at key India reservoirs drop 2% w-o-w

December 29: The water storage available at 85 important reservoirs in India stood at 92.977 BCM as on December 24, down 2.21% from 95.081 BCM as on December 18, and down 15% from the storage level of the corresponding period of last year, an official release said on December 29.

The storage on December 24 was 60% of the total storage capacity of the reservoirs of 155.046 BCM as against 61% as on December 18.

The Central Water Commission monitors live storage status of 85 important reservoirs of the country on a weekly basis.

These reservoirs include 37 having hydropower benefit with installed capacity of more than 60 MW. The total storage capacity of these reservoirs is 155.046 BCM which is about 61% of the storage capacity of 253.388 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country.

The 6 reservoirs in the northern region’s Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan, with storage capacity of 18.01 BCM, had storage of 9.49 BCM as on December 24 against 9.82 BCM as on December 18.

The eastern region’s 15 reservoirs in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Tripura, with a storage capacity of 18.83 BCM, had 13.95 BCM as on December 24 as against 14.25 BCM on December 18.

The 22 reservoirs in the two western region states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, with total storage capacity of 24.54 BCM, had available storage of 14.85 BCM as on December 24 against 15.02 BCM as on December 18.

The 12 reservoirs in the four central region states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which have total storage capacity of 42.30 BCM, had a storage level of 29.13 BCM as on December 24 compared to 29.75 BCM as on December 18.

Similarly, the 30 reservoirs in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, with a total storage capacity of 51.37 BCM, had 25.55 BCM as on December 24, against 26.25 BCM on December 18.

As on December 24, states having better storage than the corresponding period last year are Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

On December 18, states having better storage than the corresponding period last year are Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

As on December 24, states having lesser storage than last year for the corresponding period are Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Tripura, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh.