They apprised the CWC chairman with the IIT Roorkee report that estimates that a flood of 58 lakh cusecs could inundate large areas in Odisha, far exceeding the previously agreed submergence levels.
The Bhakra power house has surpassed previous records of daily power generation and shattered the record of maximum instantaneous power generation in July 2023.
As rains continue to strike parts of Delhi, water level of Yamuna stands at the edge of danger with a prediction of 205.7 at midnight.
The preliminary report prepared by the Haryana Irrigation and Water Resources Department will be sent to the Central Water Commission (CWC).
While storage capacity of these 130 major strategic water reservoirs is about 171.958 BCM (Billion Cubic Meter), the live storage of these water reservoirs is just 116.967 BCM—again 18 % less than last year.
The most worrisome storage position is for three major dams: Govind Sagar (Bhakra), Pong dam (Beas), and Sardar Sarovar. While Govind Sagar is 73 percent, Pong Dam is 58 percent of the normal storage levels.
The Tamil Nadu government had moved the contempt petition against the director of project appraisal (south), chairman of the Central Water Commission, directorate of the Central water commission, Managing Director of Cauvery Neeravari Nigam Limited, Karnataka's water resources department principal secretary and minister. The Supreme Court has tentatively listed the contempt plea for hearing on July 27, the official date will be known soon.
Various parts of the country, including Assam and Bihar, are grappling with floods.
As per the CWC, a flood warning has been sounded in Jorhat, Sonitpur, and Baksa districts.
Unless India embarks on a massive plan for the supply of drinking water to all its villages, towns and cities and executes it in the next two to three decades it will remain a Third World country for the rest of the world. If India can increase its irrigated area ten-fold from one crore hectares in 1947 to ten crore hectares in 2000, it can also create nationwide water supply schemes in a much shorter period because these schemes are not as complex as the irrigation schemes.
