With the monsoon getting more active in the last seven days, the water stock in dams in Maharashtra has increased to around 60 per cent of the total storage capacity. There are 3,264 dams in Maharashtra with a total storage capacity of 1,720.09 TMC (thousand million cubic feet).

With heavy rains in the last one week, the stock is at 1,119.13 TMC as of August 21, against 1,037.88 TMC on August 13, said the Water Resources Department. The water stock in dams was 53.39 per cent of the total capacity as of August 13, and it increased to 59.17 per cent by August 21, it said in a report.