aurangabad the water levels in the states largest reservoir in the parched marathwada region hit dead storage on thursday afternoon due to the long dry spell and soaring temperatures the depleting water levels have forced the administration to introduce 10 water cuts across all sectors this year the heavy showers in june had brought some respite to the eight districts of marathwada which have been reeling under drought for three consecutive but the prolonged dry spell and high temperatures over the past few days have drained water from the regions largest reservoir which supplies water to aurangabad city and 200 adjoining villages and industries irrigation department officials said the reservoir recorded evaporation losses of 084 million metric cube mm3 on thursday which is about five times aurangabad citys daily water requirement of 015mm3 the total storage capacity of the reservoir is 2171 mm while the dead storage capacity is 738 mm3 at 1pm on thursday the live storage water level at jayakwadi reservoir reached zero and hit the dead storage with the rising temperature the water losses due to evaporation are also surging said an irrigation department official the official added that the water losses through evaporation had increased tremendously in the past one week the water loss through evaporation for three days from june 11 was 071mm3 while it rose to 077mm3 on tuesday 081mm3 on wednesday and 084 on thursday he said the citys temperature too has witnessed a steady rise over the last one week the city had recorded maximum temperature of 32 degrees celsius on july 8 while climbed to 356 degrees celsius on july 14 overall marathwada dams have the lowest water levels at present a mere 6 of the total capacity as against the healthy figures from other parts of the state water levels in konkan region are at 50 of the total capacity nagpur and amravati regions have 28 and 32 water stock respectively the 369 dams in pune region have 30 water stock while those in nashik have 20 water on monday owing to delay in rainfall and depleting water levels at jayakwadi reservoir aurangabad district collector virendra singh had issued orders to cut water supply by 10 from the reservoir across sectors including industries drinking and agriculture purposes the water levels had dipped to 03 of the live storage earlier this week singh had said that the water cut would be introduced from tuesday the water cut would be for all sectors drawing water from the reservoir including industries and aurangabad municipal corporation amc moreover mseb was directed to start two hour loadshedding at backwaters of the reservoir to curb water lifting for agriculture he had said the amc which draws around 150 million litres a day from the reservoir is now drawing 135mld every day similarly the maharashtra industrial development corporation was drawing 50 mld water for supply to the industries it is now taking 45mld key industrial areas of the state are located at waluj shendra chikhalthana midc industrial