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dam-l LS: Tungabhadra Dam Fast Losing Storage Capacity
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> >From The Hindu : Sat 15 00
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>T.B. Dam: Steps to offset loss of storage capacity
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>By Our Staff Correspondent
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>KOPPAL, JAN. 14. The Chief Minister, Mr. S. M. Krishna, has said that the
>Government is thinking of constructing balancing reservoirs on either side
>of the Tungabhadra reservoir to store excess water during the monsoon in
>order to compensate for the loss of storage capacity in the Reservoir.
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>Talking to presspersons here today, he said that the storage capacity of
>the T.B. reservoir was being reduced year by year owing to heavy
>siltation from the catchment area. The capacity was being reduced by one
>tmc ft. every year and now stood a 100 tmc ft. against the original
>capacity of 133 tmc ft. There was an urgent need to compensate for this
>loss of storage as the situation in the command areas in Raichur, Koppal
>and Bellary districts was becoming critical due to shortage of water for
>irrigation.
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>However, the project needed huge investment. The Government would order a
>detailed technical survey to locate feasible sites on either side of the
>reservoir. He would discuss the issue with the Irrigation Ministry for
>early implementation of the proposal, he said.
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>Expressing serious concern over the problems faced by the tail- end
>ayacutdars in the Tungabhadra and other irrigation projects in the State,
>the Chief Minister said that there was a proposal before the Government to
>constitute water users' cooperative societies to educate the ayacutdars on
>better use of available water. Much water was being wasted and
>tail-enders were being denied adequate water. The excess use of water in
>the upper reaches of the canal systems had led to soil saturity and crop
>losses in tail-end areas.
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>He said that these problems would not be solved unless the ayacutdars
>formed cooperative societies.
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>Earlier, it had been decided to establish water users' cooperative
>societies in the command area of the Krishna Raja Sagar project. But,
>unfortunately, the proposal had not materialised so far.
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