Water storage level of 91 major reservoirs of The Country goes up by 11 %
Sunday - August 26, 2018 10:11 am ,
Category : INDIA
WTN- The water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on August 23, 2018 was 101.286 BCM which is 63% of total storage capacity of these reservoirs. This percentage was at 52% for the week ending on August 16, 2018. The level of water storage in the week ending on August 23, 2018 was 128% of the storage of corresponding period of last year and 107% of storage of average of last ten years.
The total storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 161.993 BCM which is about 63% of the total storage capacity of 257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country. 37 Reservoirs out of these 91 have hydropower benefit with installed capacity of more than 60 MW.
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