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Water storage at key reservoirs edge down w-o-w

April 1: The water storage available at 85 important reservoirs in India stood at 53.97 BCM as on March 31, slightly down from a volume of 54.96 BCM on March 26, and down 16% from the storage level of the corresponding period of last year, an official release said on April 1.

The storage on March 31 was 35% of the total storage capacity of the reservoirs of 155.046 BCM as same as on March 26.

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 capacity of these reservoirs is 155.046 BCM which is about 61% of the 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 capacity of 18.01 BCM, had storage of almost 5.86 as on March 31 up from the level of 5.80 BCM as on March 26.

The eastern region’s 15 reservoirs in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Tripura, with a storage capacity of 18.83 BCM, had 9.27 BCM as on March 31 against 9.60 BCM as on March 26.

The 22 reservoirs in the two western states of Gujarat and Maharashtra, with total storage capacity of 24.54 BCM, had available storage of 9.67 BCM on March 31 against 9.82 BCM on March 26.

The 12 reservoirs in the four central states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, which have total storage capacity of 42.30 BCM, had a storage level of 17.79 as on March 31 from 18.17 BCM as on March 26.

Similarly, the 30 reservoirs in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, with a total capacity of 51.37 BCM, had storage of 11.11 BCM on March 31 against 11.57 BCM as on March 26.

As on March 31, states having better storage than the corresponding period last year are Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

As on March 26, states having better storage than the corresponding period last year are Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

As on March 31, 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.