"godavari-water"

The Polavaram irrigation project in Andhra Pradesh is facing a major threat due to worsening structural issues in its upper cofferdam, exacerbated by heavy rainfall and flooding. Despite emergency repairs, the ongoing failures have raised concerns over construction quality and apparent bias in media coverage.

Farmers in Kathalapur mandal staged a maha-dharna demanding the release of Godavari water into the flood flow canal via Kaleshwaram reverse pumping. With monsoon rains delayed, they urged the government to address the irrigation crisis. BRS leaders supported them

BRS leader and former Minister T Harish Rao criticized the Telangana govt for its inaction and accused the BJP government at the Centre of favoring Andhra Pradesh and undermining Telangana’s interests

Prabhakar Reddy said that the Dubbak people had lost the lands under the project and canals while people from other parts of the State were benefiting from it.

The water was seen flowing over a check dam at Ghanpur in Nanganur mandal where the farmers welcomed the sight holding banners of former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and Harish Rao. They hailed the two leaders for getting Godavari water to their agriculture fields

The villagers asked the Congress leaders to have a dip in the Godavari water, to see what change Chandrashekhar Rao had ushered in with KLIS during his tenure as the Chief Minister

Urges the Union Minister to safeguard Telangana’s rightful share of Godavari River waters and ensure timely project approvals

Chandrababu Naidu's silence had put Andhra Pradesh's water needs and development at risk, says the leader of the main opposition party

The storage capacity of the project was 50 TMC. The irrigation department is pumping 6,500 cusecs of water as on Wednesday

According to officials, the contractor had stalled the works as bills worth about Rs.11 crore were not cleared by the government. Despite letters from officials, the government has not released the amount, they said

Irrigation Minister N Uttam Kumar Reddy instructed the officials following a letter written by Former Minister T Harish Rao.

About 15,600 cusecs of water was being discharged from Nandi Pump House with five of its seven pumping units in operation since Saturday night.

The lift irrigation scheme has in all four pump houses. Only two of the six pumps, each one of 25 MW capacity, were ready and one of them completed the trial run successfully on Thursday.

We drove at 140 kmph by road to reach here, he said. The Chief Minister said it was unfortunate that none of the Congress MLAs had won in the Assembly elections from the GHMC limits.

. Telangana has requested for 50 per cent share of the water sought to be diverted.

Water from Yellampalli reservoir was taken to Nandimedaram pump house through the gravity canal. Later, water was lifted to Gayatri pump house from where it was lifted and dumped into the flood flow canal facilitating the farmers to supply water to standing crops by drawing from the canal.

The State government had made a request to the NDSA for deputing its team for an end-to-end inspection of the Annaram barrage where fresh seepage was detected last week.

Addressing the people at Ventagiri Thanda in Dubbak Constituency on Wednesday, the MLA has asked the Congress government to send them to jail if they found making any mistakes but demanded the government release water to meet the Yasangi needs.

Speaking at the Praja Ashirvadha Sabha at Thungathurthy, Kishore Kumar said the Thungathurthy constituency was the first beneficiary of the Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Scheme.

AP, which has been drawing water from the Godavari river basin and diverting it to Krishna basin.