India’s reservoir water degree drops for thirty first week in a row

Bihar’s sole reservoir Chandan Dam has gone dry together with one other half a dozen of India’s main 150 reservoirs whilst storage degree declined for the thirty first week in a row, knowledge from the Central Water Fee confirmed.

The scenario within the southern area continued to trigger concern with the extent dropping to fifteen per cent of the capability  with the storage in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, particularly, plunging to 7 per cent of the capability. 

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Based on the CWC’s weekly bulletin on dwell storage standing of the 150 reservoirs within the nation, the extent was 27 per cent of the 178.784 billion cubic metres (BCM) capability at 47.658 BCM. Throughout the identical time final 12 months,  the storage was 79 per cent of the capability and the common in the course of the previous 10 years is 92 per cent. 

Aside from Bihar, the Bhima (Ujjani) dam in Maharashtra, the Nagarajuna Sagar reservoir — which is frequent for Telangana and Andhra —, the Yeluru reservoir in Andhra Pradesh, the Priyadarshini Jurala and Kaddam (Ok.N.R) dams in Telangana and the Tattihalla reservoir in Karnataka have zero water in them.