Central Water Commission (cwc)

Last week, the live storage of these reservoirs was at 24 per cent. The present storage is merely 77 per cent of last year's levels and 94 per cent of the normal storage, CWC data stated.

Current live storage of reservoirs at 25% of total capacity: CWC

The reservoirs under monitoring include 20 hydro-electric project reservoirs that collectively have a live storage capacity of 35.299 BCM.

J Chandrashekar Iyer to take over as Central Water Commission chairman on Thursday

Iyer, a 1984-batch officer of Central Water Engineering Service (CWES), is currently member (design and research) in the Commission.

Odisha: Flood situation alarming in northern districts, evacuation efforts underway

The water level in all the rivers located in north Odisha is in spate due to heavy rain caused by a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal, and subsequent flood-water release from Jharkhand, they said.

Central Commission study shows marginal increase in water resources

Data of 30 years (1985-2015) were taken for the study which was also done in collaboration with ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).

Mahanadi dispute: Odisha might move SC over Kalma barrage

If the dispute remained unresolved, the state would have to approach the Central Government and if nothing concrete emerges it may move the Supreme Court, he said.

'Rs 1,000 cr-Rs 2,500 cr loss each year due to Cauvery crisis'

Farmers of the Cauvery delta region today told the Supreme Court-constituted high-level technical committee that they were incurring a loss of around Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 2,500 crore each year due to the Cauvery dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.