Storage in Cauvery basin reservoirs has dipped to nearly half their gross capacity
The Hindu
The water level in the four major reservoirs in the Cauvery basin of the State has dipped to nearly half of their cumulative gross capacity and is a pointer to the unfolding crisis in the weeks ahead.
The water level in the four major reservoirs in the Cauvery basin of the State has dipped to nearly half of their cumulative gross capacity and is a pointer to the unfolding crisis in the weeks ahead.
The available quantum should not only meet the drinking water requirements of major towns and cities, including Bengaluru and Mysuru, but should last till the onset of monsoon next year which is sometime in June.
The cumulative storage in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS), Kabini, Hemavathi, and Harangi was 59.07 thousand million cubic ft (tmcft) as on Saturday 18 as against the gross capacity of 114.57 tmcft or 51.56 per cent of the storage capacity. The storage position in the reservoirs during the same period last year was 100.69 tmcft.
Water level at the KRS was 100.62 ft on Saturday as against the full reservoir level of 124.80 ft and the live storage was 23.30 tmcft as against the gross capacity of 49.45 tmcft. The storage position on the same day last year was 46.84 tmcft.
At Hemavathi reservoir, the level was 2,893.73 ft as against the FRL of 2,922 ft. The live storage was 16.23 tmcft as against the storage capacity of 37.10 tmcft, and the storage position on the same day last year was 32.92 tmcft.
The gross storage capacity of Kabini is 19.52 tmcft as against which the available storage on Saturday was 14.32 tmcft while at Harangi the quantum of water available was 5.23 tmcft as against the storage capacity of 8.50 tmcft.
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