Water levels at Karnataka's 13 major dams are below 19% of total capacity, with 155 billion cubic feet of live storage out of a potential 825 billion, according to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre. The state government has been forced to divert water from its main reservoirs in order to meet demand and is also planning on building more dams.
Water levels at Karnataka's 13 major dams are below 19% of total capacity, with 155 billion cubic feet of live storage out of a potential 825 billion, according to the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre. Successive droughts have reduced inflows to zero and although there is enough water for consumption, hydropower generation in the coming weeks would be a "tough ask", it said.