Rest Of India To Follow Bengaluru? Water Storage In Country’s Reservoirs At Just 38%

New Delhi:

Forward of the summer time season, the stay storage capability in India’s 150 main reservoirs stands at simply 38 per cent of their complete capability, which is lower than the final decade’s common for a similar interval, based on information.

Cities like Bengaluru are already grappling with a shortfall of round 500 million litres of water per day (MLD), in opposition to a requirement of two,600 MLD.

Karnataka, amongst different states, registered decrease storage ranges in comparison with the identical interval final 12 months, based on the weekly bulletin by the Central Water Fee.

Bengaluru hosts 14,000 borewells with 6,900 of them having dried up. Water our bodies have both been encroached upon or have dried up. Town requires 2,600 MLD of water, out of which 1,470 MLD is sourced from the Cauvery River and 650 MLD from borewells, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah had advised reporters.

A number of different states, together with Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Tripura, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (two mixed initiatives in each states), and Tamil Nadu, additionally reported decrease storage ranges in comparison with final 12 months.

The whole stay storage capability of those 150 reservoirs is 178.784 BCM, which accounts for about 69.35 per cent of the nation’s complete stay storage capability estimated at 257.812 billion cubic metres, based on official information.

In response to the reservoir storage bulletin on Thursday, the stay storage accessible in these reservoirs is 67.591 BCM, representing 38 per cent of their complete stay storage capability.

Nonetheless, throughout the corresponding interval final 12 months, the stay storage accessible was 80.557 BCM, with a median of 72.396 BCM over the previous decade.

Thus, the present stay storage in these 150 reservoirs quantities to 84 per cent of the storage throughout the identical interval final 12 months and 93 per cent of the typical storage over the previous decade.

“The general storage place within the nation is decrease than the corresponding interval final 12 months and likewise falls wanting the typical storage over the previous ten years for a similar interval,” acknowledged the bulletin.

The Southern area, which incorporates states like Andhra Pradesh and Telangana (two mixed initiatives in each states), Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu, screens 42 reservoirs with a complete stay storage capability of 53.334 BCM.

As of the Reservoir Storage Bulletin dated 21.03.2024, the entire stay storage accessible in these reservoirs is 12.287 BCM, which constitutes 23 per cent of their complete stay storage capability.

This marks a lower in comparison with the storage ranges throughout the corresponding interval final 12 months (39 per cent) and the typical storage over the previous ten years (32 per cent).

Thus, the present storage ranges within the Southern area are decrease than these noticed throughout the identical interval final 12 months and likewise fall beneath the typical storage over the previous ten years.
 

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