The storage level in India’s 161 major reservoirs dropped further this week to 37 per cent of the capacity with the level in almost 65 per cent of them filled below 50 per cent, data from the Central Water Commission (CWC) showed.
The CWC’s weekly reservoir data showed that the storage in the 161 reservoirs was 66.821 billion cubic metres (BCM) of the 182.38 BCM capacity. Of these, the level in 78 of them was below 40 per cent, while it was below 50 per cent in 27 others.
The storage in the southern, northern and eastern regions was below 40 per cent, while it was lower than 50 per cent in the western and central regions. The overall storage is, however, higher than last year and the normal (past 10 years).