Chennai:
The 200 cusecs of Krishna Water
which was discharged from the Kandaleru reservoir in Andhra Pradesh on Monday
trickled down to the zero point of the Kandaleru-Poondi canal at
Oothukottai on Saturday, according to Water Resources
Department officials.
The water was likely to reach the
Zero point by Friday evening or Saturday morning but has been delayed after breach in the Kandaleru-Poondi canal, WRD sources told Express.
The water from Krishna would provide
relief to the parched city which was staring at a crisis as reservoirs in the
city nearly dried up.
Water Resources department officials
told Express that the state is expected to get 800 cusecs of water a day from
Kandaleru reservoir and this could gradually be increased to 1,000 cusecs.
Krishna water supply to the city was
stopped on April 10 to facilitate repair work on the damaged portion of the
Kandaleru Poondi canal at Ubbalamadugu in Andhra Pradesh.
Currently, the city has about 1.4
tmc feet of water of which .8tmc feet is dead storage. As such the city only
has .6 tmc feet of water to cater to Chennai’s thirst before the arrival of
north-east monsoon.
As
per an interstate agreement reached in 1976, Tamil Nadu is eligible for 15tmcft
(thousand million cubic feet) of water between April and June under the Telugu
Ganga project.
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