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Reservoirs are filling up fast

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NEW DELHI: The combined live storage in 77 reservoirs monitored by the Central Water Commission at the beginning of monsoon on June 1 was 25 per cent of their designed capacity and stood at 26 per cent of the capacity on June 28.

The present storage is 118 per cent of last year’s storage and 161 per cent of the last 10-year average storage during the same period.

In 18 reservoirs the year’s storage is 80 per cent or less than the average of previous 10 years and in others the storage is more than 80 per cent of the average of the same period.

The Central Water Commission is keeping in touch with the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation and providing information of the weekly storage position to the Crop Weather Watch Group for evolving suitable crop strategies and also informing of the situation to various Departments and Ministries involved in Water Resources Planning, the Ministry of Water Resources said.

Better than average

The storage in nine basins on June 28 namely the Ganga, Indus, Narmada, Mahi, Sabarmati, Krishna, Godavari, Cauvery and neighbouring east-flowing rivers and west-flowing rivers of the south is better than the average of previous 10 years.

The storage is close to normal in Tapi and Mahanadi and the neighbouring east-flowing rivers. It is deficient in rivers of Kutch.

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