Krishna water supply (Telugu Ganga) project agreed for Madras
Tamil Nadu and the Krishna basin states agreed on a scheme to carry Krishna river water to Madras city, later built as the Telugu Ganga project.
The project to supply drinking water from the Krishna River to Madras city was approved in 1977 after an agreement between Tamil Nadu and the riparian states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka. Each of the three states was to contribute 5 billion cubic feet of water a year, a figure later revised down to 12 billion cubic feet in total in 1983 to account for losses. The scheme was implemented in the 1980s by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. G. Ramachandran. Water drawn from the Srisailam reservoir travels about 406 km through canals and reservoirs to the Poondi reservoir near Chennai, entering Tamil Nadu at the 'Zero Point' near Uthukkottai.
