India's reservoir levels rise overall but eastern, northern states lag

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Even as India's overall water storage in major reservoirs has improved significantly over last year, several states are struggling with critically low levels, according to the bulletin issued on Friday.

The country's 161 major reservoirs currently hold 57.974 billion cubic meters (BCM) of live storage, accounting for 31.78% of their total capacity, according to the weekly bulletin issued by the Central Water Commission (CWC).

Nationally, the current storage is 117.6% of last year's levels and 115.9% of the normal, a sign of overall improvement.

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