Water storage in Telangana better than last year

Hyderabad: Telangana is among the few states in the country with good water storage in major reservoirs. The amount of water stored for the week ended June 1, 2017 is substantially more when compared to the corresponding period last year.

By contrast, the water in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the  same period dipped by one per cent to 33.407 billion cubic metres, which is just 21 per cent of the total storage capacity of these reservoirs.

The total storage capacity of the 91 reservoirs is 157.799 BCM which is about 62 per cent of the total storage capacity of 253.388 BCM, which is estimated to have been created in the country.

AP figures in the list of states with lower storage than last year. The latest data released by the Central Water Commission for the Southern region  include AP and TS (two combined projects in both states), Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu.

There are 31 reservoirs in the Southern region under CWC monitoring with total live storage capacity of 51.59 BCM. The total live storage available in these reservoirs is 3.89 BCM, which is 8 per cent of total live storage capacity of these reservoirs.