{
  "id": 11039024,
  "title": "Maharashtra Govt To Test Desilting At 7 Major Irrigation Projects Before Mumbai Reservoir Cleanup",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/maharashtra-govt-to-test-desilting-at-7-major-irrigation-projects",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T21:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/maharashtra-govt-to-test-desilting-at-7-major-irrigation-projects-before-mumbai-reservoir-cleanup"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Maharashtra government has announced a pilot scheme to desilt seven major irrigation projects before testing the process on reservoirs supplying water to Mumbai. The projects selected for the pilot are Ujani in Solapur, Girna in Nashik, Gosikhurd in Bhandara, Mula in Ahilyanagar, Jayakwadi in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Hatnur in Jalgaon, and Koyna in Satara. The Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute (MERI) will conduct silt surveys of the city's reservoirs, with the findings guiding the decision on whether to proceed with desilting these critical water sources. The civic administration stated that reservoirs with annual storage loss of around 0.2 per cent generally require monitoring rather than immediate desilting, but decisions for dams over 50 years old should be based on technical and economic considerations.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}