The total amount of water available in dams and water bodies supplying Udhagamandalam town is less than 40 per cent of the total storage capacity, as per data from the Udhagamandalam Municipality (UMC).
The lack of water in the district has led activists as well as local residents to call on the municipality to ration water by limiting supply to tourist resorts and to ensure that the district’s residents are first supplied with drinking water.
The amount of water stored in Parsons Valley, Marlimund, Tiger Hill, Gorishola, Doddabetta Upper, Kodappamund Upper, Doddabetta Lower, Kodappamund Lower, Old Ooty and Glenrock is startlingly low, especially when compared with 2023, when the water bodies stored 52 percent of their total capacity during the same time last year.
