WRD asks A.P. to delay Krishna water release
The Hindu
They say the major city reservoirs are already 92.79% full
The Water Resources Department (WRD) has written to Andhra Pradesh authorities to postpone the release of Krishna water to April as all the major city reservoirs are nearly full. Chennai is normally due for a second spell of water release in January.
After a bountiful monsoon, the five reservoirs, including the Thervoy Kandigai Kannankottai reservoir, have a combined storage of 10,909 million cubic feet (mcft) of water, which is 92.79% of their total capacity.
The fifth reservoir at Thervoy Kandigai Kannankottai, created mainly to store Krishna water, is full. The Poondi reservoir, a prime storage point for Krishna water, continues to get 220 cusecs (cubic feet per second) as inflow from catchment areas.
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