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- Poondi reservoir, which is a major storage point for the city’s drinking water, is filled to the brim with copious inflow of Krishna water and run-off from catchment areas.
- Water is now being diverted to fill the three other reservoirs that feed Chennai’s needs.
- Chennai’s daily water supply at the present rate of 1,017.19 million litres a day would be sustained till the year-end with the resources in the waterbodies.
- The Water Resources Department has written to the Andhra Pradesh government to stop release of Krishna water to the city from Monday onwards.
- The waterbodies in Cholavaram, Chembarambakkam and Red Hills would touch their maximum storage in about a week or 10 days.
- The combined storage of the five reservoirs stood at 10,830 million cubic feet, which is 92% of their capacity. Officials said Poondi reservoir would continue to get residue water through KandaleruPoondi (KP) canal for some more days even after Andhra Pradesh government reduced water discharge.
- Chennai has so far received nearly 2,920 mcft of Krishna water since July 1. Andhra Pradesh discharged water ahead of the schedule as it proposed to carry out maintenance work in KP canal in its jurisdiction.
- Nearly 550 cusecs of water is being diverted to the reservoirs in Red Hills and Chembarambakkam, which have one foot to reach their maximum level. “We will continue to transfer water from Poondi reservoir to other two large waterbodies from where water is drawn for city for two months,” said an official.
- Diverting water from Poondi reservoir would help drain water faster and start work to repair shutters in summer. A minimal amount of water is sent to Cholavaram as well. The recently formed reservoir in ThervoyKandigai also has a storage of 97% . Though infrastructure has been created for water withdrawal, it still remained unused, officials said.
SOURCE: THE HINDU, THE ECONOMIC TIMES, PIB
