Reservoir levels have seldom been this low in September, shows data

Nearly 40 per cent of storage capacity is unutilised

The amount of water in the country's reservoirs is lower than it has been for years.

The live storage in reservoirs has dipped to 111.74 billion cubic metres (BCM), as on 6 September 2023, as observed for 150 reservoirs. The lowest live storage in the corresponding comparable period was observed in 2017, when live storage was at 91.2 billion cubic metres, shows data since 2015 (the earliest year with immediately available numbers on the Central Water Commission website). The latest data is for 6 September. Similar data was collated from previous year bulletins. Since the bulletins are not released on