Why blame God? Oct 11, 2009
Caught offguard by the rain, the Karnataka government started releasing water from the Almatti and Narayanpur dams on the Krishna river. On a single day, 8 lakh cusecs of water was released from both dams. (India Times, India)
Flood water recedes; normalcy returns to Andhra Oct 9, 2009
The floods in the Krishna river finally subsided as the inflows and outflows into Srisailam, Nagarjuna Sagar and Prakasam barrage were below the danger levels, government officials said. The breaches to the Right Flood Bank Canal of the Krishna at Oleru and canal bund near Repalle have been plugged. (India Times, India)
Aid slow after India flooding Oct 7, 2009
In Andhra Pradesh, the Krishna river breached its embankment at a few places, inundating dozens of villages and forcing local authorities to evacuate people with boats. Some 200,000 people in more than 200 villages have been moved to higher ground. (MSNBC -- International)
Anger swells over slow relief in India floods Oct 7, 2009
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Vijayawada faces worst flood in 100 years Oct 6, 2009
VIJAYAWADA: The heaviest flood in over a hundred years hit the Prakasam barrage on Krishna river threatening several villages downstream even as people of Vijayawada city clung on to a faint hope on Monday. ( ). (India Times, India -- Community News)
Deadly floods take toll on southern India Oct 6, 2009
Officials said 300,000 heavy sandbags were being used to fortify weakening embankments of the Krishna river that flows close to Vijayawada, a city of about a million people in Andhra Pradesh and an important trading center. Rescue workers also moved more than 200,000 people living close to the river. (MSNBC -- International)
India floods leave 1.5 million homeless Oct 5, 2009
Water discharged from the Krishna river threatened to engulf parts of the city of Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, which was entirely cut off from the state capital Hyderabad after police closed the main road connecting the two. Road transportation and train services were also hit. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Andhra Pradesh villages face threat of being submerged Oct 5, 2009
HYDERABAD: The threat of massive flooding loomed large over Andhra Pradesh's Vijayawada city and hundreds of villages in Krishna and Guntur districts with the water level in the Prakasam barrage across the Krishna river reaching the maximum level on Monday ... The barrage has never faced such massive inflows in its history and officials termed it as the worst floods in Krishna river in 100 years. (India Times, India -- Community News)
Flood recedes in Karnataka, still grim in Andhra Oct 5, 2009
BANGALORE/HYDERABAD: Respite from rains on Sunday improved the situation in flood-hit north Karnataka but surging waters from an overflowing Krishna river threatened to inundate coastal districts of Vijayawada and Guntur in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh, senior officials said ... Respite from rains on Sunday improved the situation in north Karnataka but a surging Krishna river threatened to inundate coastal districts of Vijayawada and Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, senior officials said. (India Times, India)
India flood toll rising Oct 4, 2009
"We are seeing some of the worst flooding since 1972 in the northern part of the state," Parashwanath said, referring to where the Krishna River burst its banks. Four days of intense rain have submerged villages, destroyed crops and disrupted transport and communication links in parts of the states. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Briefing: India's water crisis Sep 11, 2009
Having bickered for decades over their rights to the Krishna river, AP and upstream Maharashtra and Karnataka are now furiously building dams and diversions that the river might not support even in flood ... From the early 1960s it received occasional water in a small canal, at the tail-end of a system off the Krishna river. (The Economist)
Karnataka, Maharashtra using Krishna, Godavari water illegally: TDP Jul 19, 2009
Karnataka has been tapping 278 tmc of water from the Krishna river while Maharashtra is tapping 79 tmc of water from the Godavari, D Umamamaheswara Rao told reporters here. As a result of the exploitation of the water by the two neighbouring states, Kharif crop cultivation has become doubtful in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, he said. (India Times, India -- Community News)
