Mysuru: In good news for Bengaluru, the Cauvery reservoirs it depends on for its drinking water are filling up owing to the heavy rainfall over their catchment area.
On Thursday Krishna Raja Sagar (KRS) reservoir had 114 feet of water, just 10 feet short of its storage capacity of 124.80 feet. While Harangi and Kabini reservoirs are already holding as much water as their capacity allows, the Hemavathi dam is still not very full, although its storage is better than last year's at this time.
The reservoirs are benefitting from the 27 per cent excess rainfall received by South Interior Karnataka, including the Cauvery catchment area this monsoon. The inflow at the KRS on Thursday was 2439 cusecs and outflow, 596 cusecs. At Hemavathi, the water level on Thursday was 2883.82 feet as against its capacity to hold 2922 feet of water and the inflow was 2603 cusecs.
The storage at Kabini was 2282.17 feet as against its capacity to hold 2284 feet of water. The inflow was 1510 cusecs and outflow, 325 cusecs. At Harangi, the water level was 2857.74feet as against its capacity to hold 2859 feet. The inflow was 624 cusecs and outflow, 350 cusecs.
Going by officers of the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, the state as a whole received 774 mm of rainfall as against the normal, 839mm, during the monsoon this year, leaving it with a deficit of -8 per cent. Luckily South Interior Karnataka received much heavier rainfall, helping its reservoirs improve their storage and raising the hopes of people, who depend on them for drinking water.
