31st August 2013

Rains unable to fill water reservoirs in Sivakasi

Despite good rains for two consecutive days, reservoirs run short of water in Sivakasi town. Sivakasi received 12cm of rainfall on 29th August 2013, Thursday. The heavy downpour and thunderstorms increased the water inflow to Periyakulam, Sirukulam Kanmai and other water reservoirs in Sivakasi. However it is still not enough to fill our reservoirs. The recent rains only able to fill 10% of the total capacity of the reservoirs. There has been no significant rise of water in major water reservoirs due to successive years of drought in Sivakasi town resulting only in the soil getting wet. It is expected that monsoon rain will give significant inflow of water to Periyakulam and Sirukulam Kanmai and enable Sivakasians to over overcome the water crisis in the next summer.