Drone view of the Musi River

Hyderabad: The largest water discharge from Osmansagar and Himayatsagar in 60 years, amounting to 40,000 cusecs overnight, resulted in chaos across Hyderabad as the Musi River, swollen by the flood, cut off vast parts of the city, leaving thousands stranded in bumper-to-bumper traffic that stretched for nearly 10 km in some places and requiring the evacuation of over 1,000 people living on the riversides.

Bridges downstream of Chaderghat were forced shut, severing crucial road links between the eastern parts of the city and its core. The HMWS&SB announced later that the gates at the two reservoirs had been shut as the inflows were falling. Floodwaters entered the Phase-3 pump house at Peddapur, which supplies drinking water to Hyderabad under the Manjeera sc

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