Since becoming a state, telangana has worked tirelessly to address the difficult circumstances of the sharing of river water with Andhra Pradesh. A significant problem has been the denial of the proper share of water, particularly in the krishna basin. It has presented a compelling argument for the projects that andhra pradesh has been attempting to forward without the necessary clearances. However, it is getting more and harder for it to be heard, let alone gain the needed action on unlawful projects. From january 2020 to May 2023, the State hurriedly sent 77 letters rejecting the ap projects that have not received permission.

A few of them were written to the krishna river Management Board (KRMB), the Ministry of Jal Shakti, the Ministry of Environment and Forests, and even the Central Water Commission. However, it hasn't been very successful in mobilizing the relevant agencies. The KRMB was the target audience for the majority of the letters.

"Unfortunately, despite receiving many letters, KRMB was unable to stop andhra pradesh from carrying out the aforementioned works. The requirements of the krishna basin areas of telangana state from the srisailam and nagarjuna sagar reservoirs will be significantly impacted by all these operations requiring massive diversions, lamented C Mularidhar, Enginer-in-Chief (General), in one of his letters sent to the Chairman, KRMB.

Andhra Pradesh undertook new projects of this sort spending over Rs.47,776 crore. According to a senior officer, they are all designed to either transfer water to projects beyond the krishna basin in contravention of the andhra pradesh Reorganisation Act 2014 or to either extend or add an improved component to the current projects without clearance.

The manner ap has been boosting its drawls from the srisailam projects through the Pothyreddypadu Head Regulator has concerned the State. In order to feed projects that andhra pradesh initiated in defiance of the terms of the krishna Water Disputes Tribunal-I ruling, the PothireddyPadu regulator and its canal system were being utilized to divert water outside the krishna basin.

To increase its drawls from 15,000 cusecs to 44,000 cusecs, ap has adopted improvements to the head regulator, its canal system, and Banakacharla Cross Regulator Complex. Later on, it was increased to 88000 cusecs. Even during the monsoon season, according to the officials, ap is not permitted to draw more than 2250 cusecs with the water level in the srisailam project below 854 ft.

The State has vehemently protested the illegal building of the 0.8 tmc Joladarasi reservoir in Andhra Pradesh's Koilkuntla mandal across the Kundu river. The KRMB was also consulted on the matter. telangana has been bothered by the unauthorised building of a lift irrigation plan designed to pump eight tmc of water from the Kundu River.

The State opposed several of the new projects as well as the inclusion of additional elements to the existing projects because they wanted to be executed and would have an influence on its share of waterways. Along with Pothyreddypadu, other projects that required serious attention were the rayalaseema Lift Irrigation Scheme, SRBC, Guru raghavendra project, Veligonda projects, and RDS Right canal.

In contravention of the KWDT-I Award, ap has been diverting water to address irrigation requirements outside the krishna basin through the Galeru nagari Sujala Sravanthi Project. It had aimed to redistribute water from the controlled discharges of 10 TMC to the KC Canal from the tungabhadra dam to the Rajolibanda Diversion Scheme (RDS) canal. telangana has brought these violations to KRMB's attention. Such a reallocation is prohibited under the KWDT-I Award, according to the KRMB meeting minutes from its 16th session.

In order to benefit its ayacut beneath the KC canal and Gururaghavendra LIS, andhra pradesh keeps the sluices in the RDS anicut open for a relatively longer amount of time. As a result, telangana is using the RDS Canal much less frequently.