Veer in Maharashtra went from 17.5% full on 2 July 2026 to 99.8% on 9 July — 46 hm³ to 265 hm³ — in a single Central Water Commission bulletin. Khadakvasla, the small Pune dam, did the same trip: 15.4% to 99.0% that week. No other Indian reservoirs we track, of this size, filled faster in 2026. The monsoon had been sitting on the Western Ghats; these are the dams that caught it in seven days. Live figures are on the India page.
Key takeaways
- Veer is the fastest large fill: +82 points and +219 hm³ in the week to 9 July, still 97% a week later.
- Khadakvasla is the fastest percentage fill — 15.4% to 99.0% — in a 56 hm³ basin that supplies Pune.
- The same 2–9 July bulletin filled a cluster. Chaskaman 6.6% → 72.6%; Mulshi 9.6% → 67.5%, the biggest volume that week at +331 hm³.
- Andhra Pradesh's turn came in August. Jeedipalli 37.7% → 98.3% in the week to 20 August, and was full the week after.
- Machhu-2 in Gujarat went 33.9% → 91.8% in the week to 30 July.
One CWC week: 2–9 July, Maharashtra
India's national bulletin is weekly, so a "one-week fill" here is one row to the next, same source. On 2 July the Ghats dams were still on the floor described in the Maharashtra July edition. On 9 July they were not.
| Dam |
2 July |
9 July |
Water added |
Capacity |
| Khadakvasla |
15.4% |
99.0% |
+46 hm³ |
56 hm³ |
| Veer |
17.5% |
99.8% |
+219 hm³ |
266 hm³ |
| Chaskaman |
6.6% |
72.6% |
+142 hm³ |
215 hm³ |
| Mulshi |
9.6% |
67.5% |
+331 hm³ |
555 hm³ |
Khadakvasla was still 90% on 16 July. Veer was 97%. These are not one-bulletin spikes. Mulshi kept climbing and was 95.5% by mid-August — the rest of the fill took four more weeks, but the first 58 points arrived in the same seven days as Veer.
A percentage in the CWC series is live storage against the Commission's own live capacity. Gross capacity on our dam pages is in TMC as well as hm³: Veer about 9.4 TMC, Mulshi 19.6 TMC, Chaskaman 7.6 TMC. The fill figures above are the CWC percentages.
Later, and smaller: Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh
Machhu-2 is the Gujarat case. 33.9% on 23 July, 91.8% on 30 July, +53 hm³ in a 91 hm³ reservoir. Same bulletin cadence, same source.
Jeedipalli is the August case, from the Andhra Pradesh WRIMS feed rather than the CWC national bulletin: 37.7% on 13 August, 98.3% on 20 August, 100% on 27 August. It is a 48 hm³ reservoir. The week is as sharp as Khadakvasla's; the dam is not.
What this list is not: Sholayar can look like a 34-point day if you mix a CWC reading with a Kerala Electricity Board reading the next morning. That is two agencies, not a fill. The rows above keep one source at both ends of the week.
The Maharashtra August edition is where the Ghats story ended — 83% full as a state. This piece is only the week it flipped. Follow the live numbers on the India map and on each dam page. How the bulletin is obtained is in How we get our data: India.
