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Water Storage Below 50 Percent in 109 Gujarat Dams
Gujarat has 206 dams that store water.
More than half of them, or 109 dams, are less than half full.
Among these, 73 dams have less than 25 percent water.
Twenty-eight dams are between 50 and 70 percent full.
Thirty-seven dams are between 70 and 100 percent full.
Another 32 dams are completely full.
Together, all the reservoirs contain 71.87 percent of their total capacity.
The Sardar Sarovar reservoir is almost full, with 99.39 percent of its capacity stored.
Water storage is below 50 percent in 109 of Gujarat’s 206 dams.
Another 28 dams are 50–70 percent full, while 37 are 70–100 percent full.
A total of 32 dams are reported to be completely full.
The reservoirs collectively hold 400,946 Mcft, or 71.87 percent of capacity.
The Sardar Sarovar reservoir holds 99.39 percent of its total storage capacity.
- Who
- Gujarat’s 206 dams and the State Emergency Operations Centre, which released the data.
- What
- Water storage is below 50 percent in 109 dams, while total reservoir storage stands at 71.87 percent of capacity.
- Where
- Across Gujarat’s 206 reservoirs; the Sardar Sarovar project also covers Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
- When
- The data was released on Monday and measured as of 4 p.m.
- Why
- The State Emergency Operations Centre released the figures to report current water-storage levels.
Key facts
- Dams surveyed
- 206 reservoirs in Gujarat
- Dams below 50% storage
- 109
- Total stored water
- 400,946 Mcft
- Combined storage level
- 71.87% of capacity
- Completely full dams
- 32
- Sardar Sarovar storage
- 332,033 Mcft, or 99.39% of capacity
- Water-use reach
- The system irrigates 1.85 million hectares in Gujarat and 0.24 million hectares in Rajasthan, and supplies drinking water to three crore people.
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