The water storage available in 91 major reservoirs of the country for the week ending on May 16, 2019, was 35.99 Billion Cubic Meters, (BCM) which is 22% of the total storage capacity of these reservoirs. This percentage was at 24 for the week ending on May 9, 2019. The level of water storage in the week ending on May 16, 2019, was 115% of the storage of the corresponding period of last year and 105% of storage of average of the last ten years.

The total storage capacity of these 91 reservoirs is 161.993 BCM which is about 63% of the total storage capacity of 257.812 BCM which is estimated to have been created in the country. 37 Reservoirs out of these 91 have hydropower benefit with an installed capacity of more than 60 MW.