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Rains fail to fill reservoirs Tuesday,July 29th 2008
 

Rains that came late this month are not likely to help the water situation in the state much. The upper streams of various reservoir catchment areas, tributaries and channels that water the agricultural fields are still dry. Though it has been raining for the past few days, the amount of rainfall has been insufficient. The water levels in major reservoirs have fallen drastically.

All the major reservoirs in the the Godavari, Krishna and Penna basins have not been receiving any inflows as the upper regions have been experiencing severe drought conditions.  The lifeline of the state, the river Krishna, has been waiting for good rains in Maharashtra and Karnataka. Both these states are yet to receive good rainfall.

The water levels at reservoirs in Maharashtra — Jayakwadi, Koyana, Bhima, Isapur, Mula, Yeldari, Girna, Khadakvasla, Upper Vaitarna and Pench — are at a 10-year low. "We are not expecting these reservoirs to fill up. This means less outflow to Andhra Pradesh," said a Central Water Commission official. The situation is same in Karnataka as well, where Tungabhadra, Ghataprabha, Bhadra, Linganamakki, Narayanpur and Almatti reservoirs are hit by delayed monsoon. Barring Almatti, which has almost 50 per cent of the full reservoir level (FRL), water levels at all other reservoirs have plummeted to the minimum drawdown level (MDDL). This leaves little hope for Andhra Pradesh.

Even the water level at Srisailam reservoir has fallen to 808 ft against FRL of 885 The situation is no better at Nagarjunasagar. Sriramsagar, Nizamsagar and Singur too have hit 10-year low water levels. With dwindling water levels the power situation has been hit hard. While a normal monsoon would have enabled Kerala to generate nearly 8,000 million units of hydropower, this season, the depleted rains have brought down the target to half.

Andhra Pradesh, which generates more than 20 million units every day through Srisailam and Nagarjunasagar, ended up with less than 4 million units a day.

 
 
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