Telangana govt accuses Andhra Pradesh of drawing excess water from Krishna River

Hyderabad: The Telangana government on Friday has accused Andhra Pradesh of drawing excess water from the Krishna river more than its entitlement and encroaching into Telangana’s share of water in the common reservoirs.

Irrigation and Command Area Development (CAD) department Engineer-in-Chief (General) C Muralidhar wrote a letter to the chairman of the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) asking him



to intervene in the matter and direct Andhra Pradesh to stop utilizing Telangana share of water from the Krishna river.

He informed that since Telangana does not have exclusive offline storages, it kept its balance of 18.701 TMC of its share in the common reservoir of the Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) for the purpose of drinking water and irrigation requirements in the early months of the current fiscal.