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Telangana leaders’ conflicting claims on Krishna water allocations—from 500 TMC to 904 TMC—have drawn sharp criticism from experts, opposition, and even ruling party circles. Experts warn such flip-flops may weaken the State’s case at the tribunal

Telangana Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy has announced the state’s firm opposition to Karnataka’s proposal to raise the height of the Almatti Dam, citing ongoing proceedings in the Supreme Court. During his inspection of the Jawahar Jan Pahad Lift Irrigation Scheme, Reddy reaffirmed Telangana’s commitment to completing the Pranahita Chevella project.

The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam has reached 98% of its full capacity, prompting water release through 15 gates to manage heavy upstream inflows. The reservoir supports irrigation in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh and is currently generating 815.6 MW of hydroelectric power.

Concerns rise over potential disruptions to much-anticipated repair work at downstream Srisailam project

The project was intended to draw water from the dead storage levels of the Nagarjuna Sagar Project even when its water levels are critically low

The inflows into the project rose to a little over 82000 cusecs.

Almatti gates opened giving hope to farmers under Krishna basin projects.

Almatti Dam is nearing its full capacity due to heavy inflows. The present storage crossed the 100 TMC mark against its gross storage capacity of 129 TMC on Tuesday.

The Almatti dam started receiving inflows that are in the range of about 1,00,000 cusecs on Tuesday. The catchment of the upper Krishna irrigation projects in Karnataka have been receiving heavy rains for the last four days.

Both Almatti and Narayanpur projects have 31 tmc and 21 tmc of water as part as their present storage.

The State had already exhausted its allotted quota of 35 TMC from Krishna river projects for the current water year.