Update on water/rain situation in Gujarat

Ahmedabad, 26 June, 2014

Water supply:

Due to delayed rain, 121 villages across Gujarat are now supplied water through tankers by the Government of Gujarat. The number of villages dependent on water supply through tanker are: Kutch 46, Junagadh 20, Jamnagar 13, Amreli 9, Patan 8, Rajkot 7, Devbhumi Dwarka 6, Banaskantha 6, Surendranagar 5 and Gir-Somnath 1. According to Water Supply Minister Babubhai Bokhiria, the process of hiring more tankers is in progress.

Rain:

State’s 103 talukas are completely dry till now, while 145 talukas have experienced only 24.22 mm (3.06%) rain. Sowing has taken place only in 9.38 lakh ha area by June 25 this year compared to 26.03 lakh ha by June 25 last year. Thus there has been only 10.81% sowing so far, of which south Gujarat has witnessed 2.75%, Saurashtra has witnessed 18.70%, central/east Gujarat has witnessed 2.68% and north Gujarat has witnessed 8.91% sowing.

Water storage:

Total capacity of 203 reservoirs across Gujarat including 20 in Kutch, 137 in Saurashtra, 15 in north Gujarat, 17 in central/east Gujarat and 14 in south Gujarat is 21015 million cubic meter(MCM). On 25 June there has been 9344 MCM water storage available which is 44.46%(Kutch 6.71%, Saurashtra 15.85%, north Gujarat 18.01%, central Gujarat 69.97%, south Gujarat 49.70%).

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