Narmada dam water level at 127 metres, outflow into main canal increased
(WorldNews India)

The water level in the Sardar Sarovar dam, located in Kevadia colony of Narmada district, rose to 127.24 metres on Friday, adding four metres to its level of 123.02 metres on June 3. With monsoon yet to set in, the rising water level in the Narmada dam — for the second year in a row — is good news for the state as it is heavily dependent on the dam for water. Officials said that the dam added over 43 centimetres to its level overnight on Friday. The steady inflow of an average of 6,000 cusecs water into the reservoir upstream from Madhya Pradesh’s Indirasagar dam has meant that the live storage in the Sardar Sarovar basin is 2,593 million cubic metres (MCM). The Sardar...