{"id":121824,"date":"2021-07-28T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=121824"},"modified":"2021-07-28T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T13:26:05","slug":"andhra-pradesh-and-telangana-water-share-war-seems-far-from-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/andhra-pradesh-and-telangana-water-share-war-seems-far-from-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Andhra Pradesh and Telangana water-share war seems far from over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/economy-policy\/andhra-pradesh-and-telangana-water-share-war-seems-far-from-over-121072800010_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Standard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Interstate water disputes are a threat to national unity. Therefore, their resolution is of utmost importance.<\/p>\n<h5><b>Synopsis<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna-Godavari rivers may have their respective management boards now, but the tussle between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over water-sharing seems far from over.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Background<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Jal Shakti Ministry on July 15 issued a notification regarding the Krishna and Godavari river management boards.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It calls for <\/span><b>transferring the operation of all projects in the two river basins<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Andhra and Telangana to the boards from October 14.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notification came seven years after the constitution of the river management boards under the provisions of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>About the notification<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The notification will enable the boards to limit states\u2019 share of water as per their requirements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It brings 35 projects in the Krishna basin and 71 in the Godavari basin within the purview of the boards.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To make sure the boards are unbiased, the Centre has made it clear that<\/span><b> no person from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh shall be appointed chairman, member-secretary, members, and chief engineers.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boards will also advise the two-state governments on the release of water to mitigate disaster, drought, or flood.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>Timeline of Dispute:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal was set up in 1969.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the state was divided, the tribunal had said that Andhra Pradesh would get 45-thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) water from the total 80-tmc ft water that was to be diverted from Godavari to Krishna.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rest had to be shared between Mah\u00adarashtra and Karnataka.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Telangana now has a share in the water <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allocated to Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What&#8217;s next<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When states share a basin, there are issues. Rivers and the environment get zero due, and<\/span><b> states are only interested in taking more water for political reasons<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boards need to have a <\/span><b>clear framework to not just resolve disputes, but also take proactive measures to avoid environmental and climate disasters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, the boards have to ensure seamless data-sharing with respect to groundwater levels and telemetry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source:\u00a0 Business Standard Relevance: Interstate water disputes are a threat to national unity. Therefore, their resolution is of utmost importance. Synopsis: The Krishna-Godavari rivers may have their respective management boards now, but the tussle between Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over water-sharing seems far from over. Background: The Jal Shakti Ministry on July 15 issued a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/andhra-pradesh-and-telangana-water-share-war-seems-far-from-over\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andhra Pradesh and Telangana water-share war seems far from over<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10322,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-121824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704955026},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}