Thursday, 3 October 2013
Irrigation department allays fears of post-division water shortage
So far,the participation of farmers in the United Andhra agitation was very less. To intensify the United AP movement, the Seemandhra JAC was motivating farmers and organised a "Rytu Mahagarjana" in Hanuman Junction in Krishna district on Wednesday.
The Seemandhra leaders were telling the farmers that the division of the state would render them water less for agriculture. However, some of the farmers in coastal districts were of the opinion that the division of the state would increase the prices of their agriculture lands. Even a teacher in Krishna district recently refused to participate in the APNGOs strike citing the reason that his land would fetch more money after the division of the state.
Now, the Seemandhra leaders were explaining the farmers that the division would really damage the entire agriculture sector in Seemandhra region, particularly in Rayalaseema, as farmers would not get water at all.
Contrary to this general apprehension from some Seemandhra leaders, the Irrigation department averred that there will be no problem in sharing river waters after the division of the state. This is because all the major projects in the state were constructed on allocated waters only. The water allocation was done on project-wise. So once the state was divided, there is no possibility of reducing or increasing the allocation to a particular project in a particular region.
Top officials of Irrigation Department gave a detailed note on water allocation to each project. Major Irrigation Minister Peddi Sudarshan Reddy furnished the same to the media. If at all there were disputes in sharing water in post division of the state, they could be resolved through boards on the lines of Tunga Bhadra Board, the Minister explained.
As far as utilisation of Godavari waters was governed by Godavari Water Disputes Tribunal (GWDT), which comprises the settlements among the party states in the matter of sharing the waters among various states.
Of the 45,483.6 sq km catchment area of Godavari in the state, 36,012.9 sq km catchment area was in Telangana and 9,470.73 sq km catchment area was in Andhra region. Around 79.18 percent of catchment area of Godavari was in Telangana region and only 20.82 per cent was in Andhra region.
The water allocations made to various projects, which could not be changed after the division of the state, are as follows.
The water allocations:
Project Allocated water in tmc
KRISHNA RIVER
Assured water - 811.00 tmc
Surplus water - 227.50 tmc
ANDHRA REGION
Nagarjuna Sagar 174.3
Pulichintala 9.0
Krishna Delta 152.2
Srisailam (evaporation) 11.0
Guntur Channel 4.0
Vaikuntapuram 2.0
Muniyeru 3.3
Chennai Drinking water 1.67
Total assured: 367.34
Veligonda (surplus water) 43.50
RAYALASEEMA REGION
Tunga Bhadra LLC 29.50
Tunga Bhadra HLC 32.50
KC canal 31.90
SRBC 19.00
Srisailam (evaporation) 11.00
Bhairavanithippa 4.90
Gajuladinne 2.00
Chennai drinking water (surplus) 1.66
Total Assured : 144.70
Telugu Ganga (surplus) 29.00
Handri Neeva (surplus) 40.00
Galeru Nagari(surplus) 38.00
Total surplus 107.00
TELANGANA REGION
Jurala 17.84
Nagarjuna Sagar 105.70
RDS 15.90
Bhima LI 20.00
Koilsagar 3.90
Srisailam (evaporation) 11.00
Dindi 3.5
Musi 9.4
Paleru 4.0
Wyra 3.7
Kotipallivagu 2.0
Okachettivagu 1.9
Pakhal lake 2.6
Lankasagar 1.0
Chennai drinking water 1.67
Hyderabad water supply 5.70
Total Assured 298.96
Nettempadu LI (surplus) 22.00
Kalwakurthy LI (surplus) 25.00
AMRP (SLBC) (surplus) 30.00
Total surplus 77.00
GODAVARI RIVER:
Coastal Andhra 509.546 tmc
Telangana 912.251 tmc
Rayalaseema - nil
Evaporation losses in Hydro Electricity projects - 64.359
Total Godavari waters 1,486.156 tmc
Around 2,500 tmc Godavari water was going waste in sea every year
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