The water level in the four major reservoirs in the Cauvery basin of the State has dipped to nearly half of their cumulative gross capacity and is a pointer to the unfolding crisis in the weeks ahead.
The available quantum should not only meet the drinking water requirements of major towns and cities, including Bengaluru and Mysuru, but should last till the onset of monsoon next year which is sometime in June.
The cumulative storage in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS), Kabini, Hemavathi, and Harangi was 59.07 thousand million cubic ft (tmcft) as on Saturday 18 as against the gross capacity of 114.57 tmcft or 51.56 per cent of the storage capacity. The storage position in the reservoirs during the same period last year was 100.69 tmcft.
