Telugu Ganga project

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The Telugu Ganga project is a water supply scheme implemented in South India, to provide drinking water to Chennai city in Tamil Nadu. It is also known as the Krishna Water Supply Project, since the source of the water is the Krishna river in Andhra Pradesh. Water is drawn from the Srisailam reservoir and diverted towards Chennai through a series of inter-linked canals, over a distance of about 406 km, before it reaches the destination at the Poondi reservoir near Chennai. The main checkpoints enroute include the Somasila reservoir in Pennar valley, the Kandaleru reservoir, the 'Zero Point' near Uthukkottai where the water enters Tamil Nadu territory and finally, the Poondi reservoir, also known as Satyamurthy Sagar. From Poondi, water is distributed through a system of link-canals to other storage reservoirs located at Red Hills, Sholavaram and Chembarambakkam.

The project was approved in 1977 after an agreement was reached between Tamil Nadu and the riparian states of Krishna river: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. According to the agreement, each of the three riparian states were to contribute 5 thousand million cubic ft (tmc) of water annually, for a total supply of 15 tmc.^[1] This number was revised down to 12 tmc in 1983. After a series of delays, the project was completed in 2004, when Poondi reservoir received Krishna water for the first time.^[2] The supply of water to Chennai city in 2006 was 3.7  tmc.^[3]

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1. Krishna Water. The Hindu. Retrieved on 2007-09-17.
2. Krishna water project hits milestone. The Hindu (2007-01-20). Retrieved on 2007-09-17.

1. Nikku, Bala Raju (August 2004). "Water Rights, Conflicts and Collective Action: Case of Telugu Ganga Project, India". The Tenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for theStudy of Common Property. Retrieved on 2007-09-17. 
2. Interlinking of Rivers in India. Govt. of India (2003-08-11). Retrieved on 2007-09-17.