Krishna and Godavari water utilization

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  Krishna and Godavari water utilization

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Key point - 

1. The central government will take stock of water utilization from the Krishna and Godavari rivers following Telangana and Andhra Pradesh filing complaints against each other.

Highlights - 

1. The main goal of the exercise seems to be to assess whether enough water will be available for the new projects in the light of the disputes.
2. The government has also sought information regarding the projects that Andhra Pradesh and Telangana had on the two rivers.
3. Both the States share stretches of the Krishna and the Godavari and own their tributaries.
4. They have started several new projects without getting due clearance from the authorities concerned as per law.
5. While the Godavari discharges over 3,000 tmc ft into the sea, the Krishna has almost dried up, with Maharashtra and Karnataka taking up large projects.
6. Telangana has also embarked on several projects on the Krishna and the Godavari.

No new projects in AP - 

1. In AP, however, no new projects have been taken up.
2. The previous Telugu Desam government accelerated several unfinished projects to increase the water utilization of the State.
3. The current government, however, proposed some projects to increase the utilization of the Krishna water from a section of the river above the Srisailam Reservoir – this has led to the Telangana government filing a complaint against AP.
4. The AP came up with its own grievances saying that Palamuru-Rangareddy, Dindi Lift Irrigation Schemes on the Krishna River and Kaleshwaram, Tupakulagudem schemes and some barrages proposed across the Godavari were all new projects.

The history of the disputes of the Krishna water - 

1. Two tribunals have been constituted to resolve them.
2. Andhra Pradesh government has countered the second Krishna Water Dispute Tribunal order issued by Justice Brijesh Kumar.
3. It even filed a special leave petition (SLP) in the apex Court and the same is still pending.
4. Maharashtra and Karnataka governments have been impleaded in the cases demanding that the order of the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal allocating additional flood water to the two upper riparian States be put into practice immediately.
5. The Brijesh Kumar Tribunal distributed 81 tmcft of surplus water to Maharashtra, 177 tmcft to Karnataka and only 196 tmcft to AP. 
6. AP, as a tail-end State, is insisting that it had a right on all the 448 tmcft of surplus water and moved the court.

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