{"id":221952,"date":"2023-01-11T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=221952"},"modified":"2023-01-11T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T13:45:50","slug":"3700-dams-in-india-will-lose-26-storage-capacity-due-to-sedimentation-by-2050-un-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/3700-dams-in-india-will-lose-26-storage-capacity-due-to-sedimentation-by-2050-un-study\/","title":{"rendered":"3,700 dams in India will lose 26% storage capacity due to sedimentation by 2050: UN study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/b> The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>3,700 dams in India will lose 26% storage capacity due to sedimentation by 2050: UN study<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in<\/span> Economic Times <\/b>on 10th January 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

According to a study by the United Nations, around 3,700 dams in India will lose 26% of their total storage by 2050.<\/span><\/p>\n

This <\/span>study was conducted by the<\/span> United Nations University Institute on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH)<\/b> also known as the UN’s think tank on water.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are the key findings of the study?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Dams in India:<\/b> Around 3,700 large dams in India will lose 26% of their total storage by 2050 due to the accumulation of sediments which can undermine water security, irrigation and power generation in future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Note:<\/b> In 2015, the Central Water Commission reported that among 141 large reservoirs which are over 50 years old, one quarter had lost at least 30% of their initial storage capacity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dams Globally: <\/b>Trapped sediment has already robbed roughly 50,000 large dams worldwide of an estimated 13 to 19% of their combined original storage capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The study estimates that 6,316 billion cubic meters of initial global storage in 47,403 large dams in 150 countries will decline to 4,665 billion cubic metres causing 26% storage loss by 2050.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 This loss is roughly equal to the annual water use of India, China, Indonesia, France and Canada combined.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dams in Asia Pacific region:<\/b> In 2022, the Asia-Pacific region, the world’s most heavily dammed region, is estimated to have lost 13% of its initial dam storage capacity. It will have lost nearly a quarter (23%) of its initial storage capacity by 2050.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 This region is home to 60% of the world’s population and water storage is crucial for sustaining water and food security.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dams in China<\/b>: China, the world’s most heavily dammed nation has lost about 10% of its storage and will lose a further 10% by 2050.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article \u201c3,700 dams in India will lose 26% storage capacity due to sedimentation by 2050: UN study\u201d published in Economic Times on 10th January 2023 What is the News? According to a study by the United Nations, around 3,700 dams in India will lose 26% of their total… Continue reading 3,700 dams in India will lose 26% storage capacity due to sedimentation by 2050: UN study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,7965,9],"tags":[10596],"class_list":["post-221952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-economic-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}