AHMEDABAD: In the last 10 days, water storage levels in the dams of North Gujarat and Kutch registered a decline, while the dams in Saurashtra and Central Gujarat have registered a marginal increase in the storage. Overall storage in the 206 dams barring the Sardar Sarovar is 51.08% of their capacity of 15,784 MCM.
Of the 206 dams in the state, only seven dams storage of 90% of capacity or more, eight have between 80% and 90%. Only 11% of dams have more than 70% storage. Officials said one of every four dams in the state has less than 10% of their storage. The data shows that 61 dams have storage between 30% and 10%, and 185 dams in the state have less than 70% water.
The officer said the state will have to depend heavily on the Sardar Sarovar to meet its drinking water needs as other dams hardly have water that can be used for drinking. Officials said the water situation is bad in North Gujarat, as 15 dams only have 24% storage while the 20 dams in Kutch have only 21% storage. Saurashtra, which has 141 dams, only has 40% storage which is about half of the level of 2020.
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