Cauvery river water sharing between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu resulted in large scale violence even after Supreme Court ruling. This sent shock waves across the country and common people are fear struck in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as political parties in both states are adding fire to the fuel for petty political gains. 

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Even after Supreme Court asked Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to ensure law and order, the governments headed by Siddaramaiah and Jayalalitha decided to look otherway. This situation is making even people of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh experience tense movements as CM KCR and CM Chandra Babu fought many bitter battles over sharing of electricity and power earlier. 

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Several irrigation projects in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh are struck in disputes and disagreements even though two states experienced floods or acute droughts. Late in May, tensions erupted once again in Andhra Pradesh’s Rayalaseema region over the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme, an inter-state barrage to supply water to Andhra, Karnataka and Telangana.

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Inter district war between Mahabubnagar and Kurnool now turned inter state water due to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. The Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme is built across Tungabhadra, tributary of Krishna river. In 1973, the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal had decided that farmers from the Kurnool and Mahabubnagar districts would draw water in a ratio of 60:40. Both parties, however, accuse one another of trying to prevent water from reaching the other side.


Telangana after its formation has been demanding  that the tribunal treat it as a separate entity in resolving water-sharing disputes between Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. Farmers of Telangana say “We do not want to fight, but farmers of Kurnool are blocking the flow of water or diverting it to their fields. Unless our share of Tungabhadra water is released from Andhra’s side of the river, our crops will dry up,” Same is the case with farmers from AP. 


Telangana agitation started as Mahaboobnagar, the moth of Tungabhadra never for its waters. This is because a network of irrigation schemes and dams lead these waters into the lush paddy fields and tobacco crops of the rich Krishna delta areas in Andhra Pradesh. Mahabubnagar, on the other hand, grapples with drought year after year, which has also resulted in widespread migration.

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Pattiseema also became major contention between Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Sharing of Krishna and Godavari with Telangana in upstream always led to controversy as parts of Andhra, such as Rayalaseema, also face a similar shortage because the state is located downstream, and therefore attempts to draw more water from these rivers. This resulted in tense situation in Nalgonda and Guntur. Water levels had plummeted in the major reservoirs of both states – Srisailam in Andhra Pradesh and Nagarjunasagar in Telangana. Both are fed by Krishna. Telangana did not open the sluice gates at Nagarjunasagar to release water downstream towards Srisailam. 


Pattiseema project to divert 80 thousand million cubic feet of water from the Godavari into the Krishna at Vijaywada interlinking Krishna and Godawari is increasing tensions. While Telangana is opposing projects in AP, AP too is opposing projects in Telangana like two lift irrigation projects in Telangana over Krishna river – the Palamuru-Ranga Reddy project and the Dindi Lift Irrigation project – contending that these amounted to a violation of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014.


Chandra Babu speaking to scribes says he will revolve all water rows with KCR in a peaceful manner. Both CMs will attend an apex board meeting to be chaired by Union water resources minister Uma Bharti in Delhi on September 21.


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