KRISHNA RIVER

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• Tamil Nadu urged Andhra Pradesh to suspend the water supply of the Krishna River as Chennai city reservoirs are filled up.
• Tamil Nadu state government has urged Andhra Pradesh to suspend Krishna water release for some period as Tamil Nadu did not have the facility to store more water because reservoirs are already filled up.

Krishna River

• It is the 3rd-longest river in India, after the Ganges and Godavari, and the 4th-largest river in terms of water inflows and river basin area after the Ganges, Indus and Godavari.
• The total length of the river is about 1,400 kilometres and it falls in the Bay of Bengal.
• The Krishna Basin extends over Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka
• The river is bordered by;
  • The Balaghat range in the north.
  • The Eastern Ghats in the South and the East.
  • The Western Ghats in the West.
• It rises from the Western Ghats in the Satara district of Maharashtra near Mahabaleshwar.
• It is the major source of irrigation in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
• Left Bank tributaries - Bhima, Dindi, Peddavagu, Musi, Paleru, Munneru.
• Right Bank tributaries - Kudali (Niranjna) Venna, Koyna, Panchganga, Dudhaganga, Ghataprabha, Malaprabha, Tungabhadra.
• The largest tributary of the Krishna River is the Tungabhadra River, but the longest tributary is the Bhima River.
• The important types of soil found in the Krishna basin are black soils, red soils, laterite and lateritic soils, alluvium, mixed soils, red and black soils and saline and alkaline soils.
• The Krishana-Godavari delta is known as the "Rice Granary of India."
• Krishna river basin is rich in mineral deposits such as oil & gas, coal, iron, limestone, dolomite, gold, granite, laterite, uranium, diamonds, etc. The following are the few noted deposits:
• Important dams on Krishna River:
  • Basava Sagar Dam
  • Nagarjuna Sagar Dam
  • Srisailam Dam
  • Prakasham Barrage

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