Central Water Commission is monitoring live storage status of 123 reservoirs of the country on weekly basis. Out of these reservoirs, 43 reservoirs have hydropower benefit with installed capacity of more than 60 MW. The total live storage capacity of these 123 reservoirs is 171.091 BCM which is about 66.36% of the live storage capacity of 257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country. The overall storage position is better than the corresponding period of last year in the country as a whole and is better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period.

Northern Region

    • Includes States of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan

    • 8 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 19.17 BCM

    • Total live storage available in these reservoirs is 14.52 BCM which is 76% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs

    • Storage during current year is less than the corresponding period of last year and is also less than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period

Eastern Region

    • Includes States of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Tripura and Nagaland

    • 18 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 19.43 BCM

    • Total live storage available in these reservoirs is 14.28 BCM which is 73% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs

    • Storage during current year is better than the corresponding period of last year and is also better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period

Western Region

    • Includes States of Gujarat and Maharashtra

    • 42 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 35.24 BCM

    • Total live storage available in these reservoirs is 30.60 BCM which is 87% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs

    • Storage during current year is better than the storage of last year and is also better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period.

Central Region

    • Includes States of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh

    • 19 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 44.45BCM

    • Total live storage available in these reservoirs is 38.12 BCM which is 86% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs

    • Storage during current year is better than the storage of last year and is also better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period

Southern Region

    • Includes States of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, AP&TG (2combined projects in both states), Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu

    • 36 reservoirs under CWC monitoring having total live storage capacity of 52.81 BCM

    • Total live storage available in these reservoirs is 41.64 BCM which is 79% of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs

    • Storage during current year is better than the corresponding period of last year and is also better than the average storage of last ten years during the corresponding period.

(The author is a trainer for Civil Services aspirants. The views expressed here are personal.)