April rains increase water storage in dams
| Date :04-May-2023 |
Staff Reporter
While unseasonal rainfall in the month of April this year caused great inconvenience to the citizens and put farmers to losses, it has increased water storage in all major reservoirs across Nagpur region, as compared to last year.
According to the Water Resources Department, the Nagpur region had 39.28 per cent of total water storage in all its major dams last year. This year, the total storage has increased to 44.03 per cent. The increase is 4.75 per cent as compared to the water storage last year.
In the month of March, when the scorching summer had an early onset, water storage in the dams depleted. As compared to other divisions, the Nagpur division had the lowest water storage across Maharashtra then. However, good rains in April helped improve the storage in the reservoirs of Nagpur division. The storage has improved. Totladoh and Kamthi Khairy reservoir, major sources of water for Nagpur city, have ample water to cater to the demand for a year. Totladoh dam, which has the designed storage of 1166.93 Mcum, has a live water stock of 760.11 Mcum which is the 60 per cent of its total storage. Last year the water storage in Totladoh was 58.24 per cent.
Similarly, Kamthi Khairy has 180.98 Mcum designed storage and it has a live water of 149.57 Mcum which is 77.88 per cent. Last year it was 45.99 per cent.
Other major dams of Nagpur region like Khindsi and Nand also have more water than last year. Whereas Wadgaon dam, had more water last year than this year. Another major reservoir, Gosikhurd dam of Bhandara district, which has 1,146.08 designed storage, has 25.40 per cent of water as on May 3. Last year it had 26.28 per cent. In all over state, Amravati division has the highest 42.51 per cent of water storage on this date. Aurangabad is second with 41.56 per cent followed by Konkan (41.35%), Nagpur (41.30%), Nashik (39.92%) and Pune (30.30%).
