Irrigation authorities of Karnataka have started releasing water from Narayanpur dam in Yadgir district to Jurala reservoir in Jogulamba-Gadwal district from Wednesday night to meet the drinking water needs in the combined Mahabubnagar district. After 2 p.m. on Thursday, the discharge of water through the spillway of Narayanpur dam was increased to over 8,000 cusecs. Kumaraswamy over phone on April 30 to release 3 tmc ft water from Narayanpur to Jurala to meet the drinking water needs in Mahabubnagar district. Accordingly, the irrigation authorities of Karnataka started releasing water from Almatti dam to Narayanpur on May 4 to build up level in the latter so that water release to Jurala could be taken up. Live storageOn Wednesday morning the gross storage in Narayanpur according to the Central Water Commission was 18.7 tmc ft and the live storage according to Karnataka authorities was 8.01 tmc ft.

Source: The Hindu May 09, 2019 19:10 UTC