Cheerful news to Chennaites- Krishna water is coming to Chennai very soon
Posted on: 19/Mar/2014 2:18:52 PM
This could be a very cheerful news to Chennaites as well as officials of Metro Water.
The Poondi reservoir that stores Krishna water discharged from the Kandaleru reservoir in Andhra Pradesh stopped receiving inflow completely nearly 10 days ago. The reason cited then was that the volume of Krishna water released from the reservoir was reduced as allocation for irrigation in the State was over.
Following a request from the Tamil Nadu government, Andhra Pradesh officials have promised to step up the release to augment the city’s drinking water needs.
A team of officials from the Water Resources and Municipal Administration and Water Supply departments had visited the neighbouring state two days ago.
Sources in WRD said the team had elaborated on the significance of Krishna water to the city’s water needs in summer. As the Kandaleru reservoir has sufficient storage of 23.43 thousand million cubic feet (tmcft), the city will be provided with its share of Krishna water from next week.
About 300-350 cusecs would be needed to maintain the drinking water supply to the city. Currently, Chennai is supplied with 585 million litres a day on alternate days.
The steady inflow of Krishna water is expected to help Chennai tide over water shortage in summer months and also, stabilise the storage in the city’s reservoirs.
