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AP sought emergency release of 5 TMC of water from the Nagarjuna Sagar Project to meet the drinking water needs in the Guntur, Palnadu, Bapatla and Prakasam districts.

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

The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board has made arrangements well in advance for emergency pumping of water from the project.

Reviewing the drinking water situation in the State, he directed the officials to be ready to draw water even from the dead storage levels in the Nagarjuna Sagar project if needed to address the situation.

The three-member committee of the River Management Board, which met here, discussed the drinking water needs of both states and the utilisation of 80 tmc of water allotted to them in October.

The Board officials made it clear that Telangana had already exhausted its allotted quota of 35 tmc for the current water year. In fact it had drawn more.

The State will be writing to Ministry of Jal Shakti seeking immediate steps to stop release of two TMC water allotted of late to AP and spare whatever little is left in the project only for meeting the drinking water needs in Telangana.

There are around 2.20 lakh acres of land under the NSP left canal in the district.

The State had a bumper Rabi harvest last year and procurement of paddy was done till the last grain in 2022-23.

In addition to the regular maintenance works, the NDSA team that visited the project some time ago, had also identified certain shortcomings in the maintenance.

The project officials could foresee an unusual situation where in both the States are likely to seek drawls reaching below the minimum drawdown level of 510 feet.

Speaking to the media here, Sukender Reddy said the State government had declared a crop holiday for the ayacut of the left canal of Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) for the Yasangi crop season due to the drastically dip in water levels in the project.

In many areas, power supply is disrupted mostly in the evenings, with the power cuts stretching for four to five hours

Farmers here have been in a dilemma after the State government declared a crop holiday for the Yasangi season to the areas in the ayacut under the left canal of NSP, citing shortage of water in the project

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Following instructions from Irrigation minister Tummala Nageshwar Rao, NSP officials released 1,000 cusecs of water to the left canal at 5.30 pm

The cultivation of paddy had dipped sharply due to adverse weather conditions and lack of irrigation facility, officials said.

The Ministry of Jal Shakti has taken a serious view of the row over water sharing at Nagarjuna Sagar Project between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh did not comply with the directives of the Home Secretary so far, according to Engineer-in-Chief (General) C Muralidhar on Saturday

Official sources said that two more battalions of CRPF are expected to reach the Nagarjuna Sagar project for additional deployments.