Water stocks in dams in Maharashtra increases to 60 percent of total storage capacity

With the monsoon getting more active in the last seven days, the water stock in dams in Maharashtra has increased to around 60 percent of the total storage capacity.

There are 3,264 dams in Maharashtra with a total storage capacity of 1,720.09 TMC (thousand million cubic feet). With heavy rains in the last one week, the stock is at 1,119.13 TMC as of August 21, against 1,037.88 TMC on August 13, said the Water Resources Department.

The water stock in dams was 53.39 percent of the total capacity as of August 13, and it increased to 59.17 percent by August 21, it said in a report. There was a dry spell in the first two weeks of August, but many parts of the state have reported incessant rains in the last seven days, it said.

Most of the rainfall has taken place over Marathwada, North Maharashtra, South Maharashtra and Vidarbha. Mumbai and Madhya (Central) Maharashtra regions received comparatively less rainfall during this period, the report said.

The dams in the Amravati division were filled up to 37.79 percent as of August 13. The stock has now improved to 50.82 percent, the report said. The water stock in dams in Konkan improved from 86.18 percent on August 13 to 89.80 percent. The Nagpur division also showed improvement, from 30.76 percent water stock as of August 13 to 36.77 percent.

In Nashik division, water stock in dams increased from 59.38 percent to 66.05 percent in the last one week. In Pune division, the water stock in dams increased from 82.09 percent to 89.90 percent. In Marathwada, it increased from 17.48 percent to 21.78 percent.

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