Hyderabad: In view of the precarious water circumstance in dams on the Krishna river in AP and TS as a result of scanty inflows, the Krishna River management Board has decided to ask each states to keep the storage simplest for the goal of meeting ingesting water needs, as an alternative of planning for use for agricultural functions.
Board member-secretary Sameer Chatterjee informed this newspaper the board, during its scheduled meeting on August 22 in Amaravati, will insist that the governments restrict use of water from the major dams and tasks for the purpose of meeting ingesting water wants. He pointed out even in the third week of August, there were no inflows into the Krishna based initiatives in both the states.
"both states need to be very vigilant at the moment as a result of scanty inflows and take such steps towards the usage of the obtainable storage for irrigation intention. each governments should still maintain the storage most effective for drinking water wants," Mr Ch-atterjee pointed out.
He talked about the board, assembly outdoor its headquarters for the first time. would deliberate on a number of concerns like states following due process in appreciate of getting approvals for brand spanking new initiatives, setting up 2nd part of telemetry programs at all key points on projects and canals as authorised prior.
He noted that the adhoc arrangement of sharing Krishna waters between both the states for the water yr — June 2017 to may additionally 2018 — had not yet been finalised yet.
within the previous years it changed into agreed to share 811 thousand million cubic foot of Krishna waters between TS and AP on the ratio of 299 and 512 tmc ft.
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