Water level at just 23% at 150 key reservoirs, says CWC report

The water level of the country's 150 main reservoirs has dropped to 23% and is 77% less than last year's levels at this time, according to Central Water Commission (CWC) data.

Last week, the live storage of these reservoirs was at 24%. The present storage is 77% of last year's levels and 94% of the normal storage, CWC data stated.

In its latest weekly bulletin, released on May 31, the Commission said that "the total live storage available is 41.705 billion cubic metres (BCM), equating to 23% of the total capacity".