{"id":577584,"date":"2023-05-18T11:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T06:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=577584"},"modified":"2023-05-18T13:23:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T07:53:32","slug":"meghalayas-power-crisis-may-continue-as-umiam-lake-water-level-down-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/meghalayas-power-crisis-may-continue-as-umiam-lake-water-level-down-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya&#8217;s power crisis may continue as Umiam Lake water level down: Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya, which is reeling under a power crisis for the past few days, may have to suffer more in the coming days as the water level at a key dam used in producing hydel electricity is at its lowest, Power Minister A T Mondal said.<\/p>\n<p>The power generation may have to be shut down if the water level at Umiam Lake goes down by another foot, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water level as of today is 3,165 feet. This is the lowest in the history of the lake. The lowest water level recorded was 3,170 feet a few years ago,&#8221; Mondal told PTI on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Any hydel power project needs a minimum water level for generating electricity. The minimum level of water required for power generation at Umiam is 3,164 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meghalaya, which is reeling under a power crisis for the past few days, may have to suffer more in the coming days as the water level at a key dam used in producing hydel electricity is at its lowest, Power Minister A T Mondal said. The power generation may have to be shut down if the water level at Umiam Lake goes down by another foot, he said. &#8220;The water level as of today is 3,165 feet. This is the lowest in the history of the lake. The lowest water level recorded was 3,170 feet a few years ago,&#8221; Mondal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}