21-05-2025
Krishna Water Management Board in a fix as Telangana opposes water release from Nagarjuna Sagar to Andhra Pradesh
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Vijayawada: The
Krishna Water Management Board
(KRMB) is in a fix with AP and Telangana taking opposite sides with regard to water releases from the Nagarjuna Sagar project. Andhra Pradesh sent an SoS to KRMB seeking release of 10 tmc ft of water from the Nagarjuna Sagar project to meet
drinking water needs
in Krishna, Guntur, Prakasam and Palnadu districts.
The AP govt explained that almost all the drinking water tanks in upland areas of several districts under the Nagarjuna Sagar project were dried up and release of water is the only way to meet the drinking water needs. After sending a formal request, AP govt advisor (water resources) M Venkateswar Rao called KRMB chairman Atul Jain over phone and explained the situation. He requested the KRMB chairman to take a favourable decision at the earliest in view of the emergency.
Sources said that the KRMB chairman suggested the govt advisor to send a detailed proposal as to how many tanks were located along the canal and their capacities. Although KRMB looked positive on the issue, opposition from Telangana is believed to have delayed the release. Sources said that the Telangana govt informed the KRMB chairman that any fresh release from Nagarjuna Sagar project will dip levels below the Dead Storage Level (DSL), which would force it to depend on lift irrigation to pump water for Hyderabad's drinking water needs.
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Telangana demanded that AP should bear the electricity charges of its lift irrigation scheme in case KRMB wanted to release water to AP. However, AP turned down the proposal saying it was seeking water from its rightful share and there is no question of payment of electricity charges towards usage of lift irrigation scheme.
