India stares at summer water crisis as reservoir levels slide

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NEW DELHI: India's main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer.

Residents arrive to get their containers filled with drinking water from a water tanker supplied by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike in a neighbourhood that is facing severe water scarcity, in the south of Bengaluru, India, on Mar 11, 2024. NEW DELHI: India's main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer.

In the southern state of Karnataka, home to Bengaluru, the main reservoir was down to 16 per cent capacity. In other industrial states such as Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and agricultural states Uttar Pradesh and Punjab levels are below their 10-year averages. A senior official in the federal power ministry said the ministry is monitoring reservoir levels but does not yet anticipate a situation that could lead to a shutdown of plants.

 

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