UPDATED: July 23, 2021 19:23 IST
A view of the Srisailam dam on the Krishna river(Photo by 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 Reorganisation Act, 2014, to carve out Telangana, but how the river waters will be managed and shared between the two Telugu states has remained unresolved.
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