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Title: Water level in 91 major reservoirs at 19% of total capacity
Source:Business Standard
Date:29 June 2017
The water level in 91 major reservoirs in the country continued to be at 19 per cent of their total capacity for the second week in a row, the government said. The Union water resources ministry said the reservoirs, including the Nagarjuna Sagar, Indira Sagar and Bhakra dams, contained 29.67 billion cubic metres (bcm) of water for the week ending 29 June 2017.The fresh water level is 126 per cent of the storage reported during the corresponding period last year and 91 per cent of the decadal average, the ministry said in a statement. Rajasthan, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu reported lesser storage compared with 2016.
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