The dry spell in continued on Thursday, as the state, barring Kothagudem, Khammam, Nizamabad, Kamareddy, Mahbubabad, Nirmal and Medak which received 5 cm to 11 cm of rainfall on the day received scanty rainfall.
All major reservoirs in Telangana, under the Godavari and Krishna basins, are witnessing poor inflows due to the conditions.
While in 2022, major projects under the Krishna and Godavari had water of 389 TMC ft, the figure is down to 285 TMC ft, during the same period, this time around. This has had a critical negative impact on Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture operations in the state as well.
In the Godavari basin, the Sriramsagar project clocked a water level of 1066.6 feet and storage of 22.924 TMC ft on Thursday. On the same date in 2022, it had 73.54 TMC ft gross storage and a water level of 1087.1 feet. Inflows reached 10,429 cusecs on Thursday, with Godavari River accounting for 4,629 cusecs from catchment areas and 5,800 cusecs from the flood flow canal in reverse-pumping mode.
The water storage level of the Yellampalli reservoir was recorded at 13.935 TMC ft, against its full capacity of 20.175 TMC ft.