Country’s major water reservoirs are facing hardships with lowering water levels. On Friday, the press information bureau rolled out an important observation depicting that 91 big reservoirs in the country have gone down in the water levels by 2%. On March 30th, 2017, 91 water reservoirs was 52.632 BCM, which makes just 33% of the total storage of these reservoirs. Shockingly, on March 23, 2017, this level was 35. The average of last ten years was 102% of the storage capacity and the levels on corresponding time of last year was 133%.
The storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 157.799 BCM which makes about 62% of the complete storage capacity of 253.388 BCM. In fact, 37 out of these 91 reservoirs have the addition of hydropower along with an installed capacity of around 60 MW.
They have given the storage status as per the region and also the northern region which includes Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab has in total of six reservoirs. These are running under Central Water Commission with holding a total live storage capacity of 18.01 BCM.
These reservoirs have a total live storage of 4.13 BCM which makes 23% of the complete live storage of these reservoirs. These reveals that, corresponding year’s storage was 25% and the average reservoirs of last ten years was 30% of the live storage capabilities of these reservoirs.
The current year’s storage is lowered than the corresponding period of previous yea. Also, it is much lesser than the average storing capacity of past 10 years.
With this pace, we are seeing a deteriorating phase of water levels in the country which a matter of worry. Rain water harvesting is the most prompt option available to come out of these dearth times. Rajasthan’s Mukhyamantri Jal Swawlamban Abhiyan is a an adopted model by many Asian country governments.
