The combined storage of 15 major irrigation reservoirs in Tamil Nadu is not even 50 of their total capacity.
On Monday morning, the storage of the reservoirs was about 92.8 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) against the total capacity of about 195 tmc ft.
The main reason for the situation is that the storage (30.2 tmc ft) of the Mettur reservoir is nearly one-third of its capacity of 93.47 tmc ft. If Mettur left out, the combined storage of other reservoirs is around 61% of the total capacity.
