Karnataka: KRS water level dips to 81.40 feet, just 7 feet from dead storage
Mysuru: While the state has pinned its hopes on the special leave petition on the Cauvery dispute expected to come up for hearing on Tuesday in the Supreme Court, the Krishna Raja Sagar reservoir saw its water level drop alarmingly to 81.40 feet on Monday, just seven feet away from dead storage.
Karnataka has released as much as 23.933 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu after the Supreme Court’s first verdict on September 7 asking it to do so and following its latest verdict as much as 6.419 tmcft has been released to the neighbouring state since October 4.
The recent release of water has hit the storage in all four reservoirs of the Cauvery basin. While currently, Krishna Raja Sagar reservoir has 11.417 tmcft of water left, Kabini has 10.491 tmcft, Harangi , 4.455 tmcft and Hemavathi, 6.88 tmcft.
The water level at the KRS reservoir dropped from 89.31 feet on October 6 to 81.40 feet on Monday, and in Kabini, it dropped from 2271.45 feet to 2267.49 feet.
At the Hemavathi reservoir, it dropped from 2877.47 feet to 2872.10 feet and at the Harangi reservoir, the water level dropped from 2845.85 feet to 2842.78 feet.
Last year on the same day, the water level at the KRS reservoir was 108.42 feet, at Kabini, 2972.20 feet, at Hemavathi, 2885.25 feet and at the Harangi reservoir, it was 2829.77 feet.
On Monday, the KRS reservoir received an inflow of 966 cusecs, Kabini, 733 cusecs, Hemavathi , 492 cusecs, and Harangi, 361 cusecs, which didn't give much room for hope either.
