THE RIVER WATER WARS
Jul 24, 2021
3 minutes
By Amarnath K. Menon
MOHAMMED ALEEMUDDIN
On July 16, the bitter row between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over sharing Krishna waters—tapping it for irrigation and hydro power—entered a new phase with the Union government’s Jal Shakti ministry ordering that from mid-October the management and control of irrigation projects on the Krishna and Godavari rivers will vest with the respective river management boards and not the states. The notification has come not a day too soon. It has been seven years since the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh under the Andhra Pradesh
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