Vijayawada: The Andhra Pradesh government has written to the Krishna River Management Board (KRMB) to prevail upon the Telangana government to not withdraw water only for hydel power generation purposes from the main powerhouse of the Nagarjunasagar project.
In his letter to the KRMB member-secretary, AP water resources department engineer-in-chief C. Narayana Reddy said that the release of water was resulting in huge inflows into the KL Rao Sagar Pulichintala project. The project had 40.80 tmc ft (thousand million cubic feet) of water against full reservoir capacity of 45.77 tmcft.