Worst Ever Drought Stares At Karnataka

Bengaluru, July 27: While the regular monsoon season is slowly drawing towards its end, Karnataka is staring at one of the worst ever droughts in the recent past.

While the reservoirs in the Cauvery basin have recorded the lowest storage of water in the last six years, the Krishna basin is breathing through water from Maharashtra, which is facing a flood like situation in the Krishna basin.

Among the Cauvery basin reservoirs, only Harangi dam has storage of 7.5 tmc ft of water, against its full capacity of 8 tmc ft of water. World famous KRS dam has only 17.13 tmc ft of water as against its full capacity of 49.45 tmc ft. Last year towards July last week, KRS had storage of 48.06 tmc ft water. The story of other two reservoirs -- Kabini and Hemavathi are also no different.