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CENTRE & STATES NEED TO FORGE NEW MECHANISM TO END RIVER WATER DISPUTES

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January 13, 2026

IF the history of river-water disputes among Indian states offers any lesson, it is that even a long, meandering process may not arrive at a lasting solution.

Afloat on the latest turn of such a disagreement is the Andhra Pradesh government's proposed Polavaram-Nallamala Sagar Link Project, which seeks to divert 200 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of Godavari water to the drought-prone Rayalaseema region.AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu's logic appears reasonable-on average, around 3,000 TMC of Godavari water is estimated to flow unused into the Bay of Bengal every year. But Telangana, whose writ challenging the project's expansion was disposed of by the Supreme Court on Monday, contends that the project violates the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act and points out that the appointed tribunal had allowed only 80 TMC to be diverted, not

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