Water Storage Level

Water storage in Marathwada's 11 major irrigation projects has plummeted to 33.59 per cent due to the delayed monsoon, with two reservoirs running completely dry, an official said on Tuesday. The Marathwada region - comprising eight districts - has recorded only 79.6 per cent of its expected June rainfall, receiving 103.1 mm so far against a normal average of 129.5 mm, the official report stated. The 11 major irrigation projects, which are vital for drinking, irrigation, and industrial needs, have a combined live storage capacity of 182.07 thousand million cubic feet (TMC), and as of Monday, they held only 33.59 per cent of their capacity, a significant drop from the 42.85 per cent (78.01 TMC) recorded on the same day last year, it said. According to the report, the situation seems particularly dire in the Dharashiv and Hingoli districts, where the Sina Kolegaon project has hit a negative storage level of -2.87 per cent, while the Siddheshwar project is effectively empty, down from

Locals, who had been holding demonstrations to protest the ongoing water crisis due to summer, said that their demands for adequate water supply were met through two tankers daily

Marathwada has already received 840 millimetres of rain this monsoon, or 123.62 per cent of the region's annual average rainfall of 679 millimetre

States having better storage for the corresponding period are Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Tripura, Maharashtra, Uttarakhand

37 Reservoirs out of these 91 have hydropower benefit with installed capacity of more than 60 MW