‘Water wars’ Between Telangana & AP

The ongoing tussle between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh over water sharing reached crescendo as the TS government warned the AP counterpart stop filling Dr KL Rao Sagar Pulichintala reservoir with river Krishna water this season until all the grievances of the displaced are addressed at the project site.

In a letter to AP, the TS government said it already wrote a letter to it in February 2015 to resolve the long pending Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R and R) for the displaced at the project site and at all lift irrigation schemes which were under construction. But no action was taken towards addressing the issue.

Telangana informed nearly 13 village were facing submergence at project site in Nalgonda district, officials said that if the reservoir built with a capacity of 40 TMC under the project is filled with water, the low lying areas would be badly affected.