Sounding a warning against the impending danger posed by the Karnataka government’s move to further raise the height of the Almatti dam, BRS working president KT Rama Rao said on Sunday that it would adversely impact the Krishna river water flows to both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

Addressing a mammoth Jana Garjana rally at Achampet, he said the move to augment the storage capacity by raising its height by five metres in the Karnataka project at a cost of Rs 70,000 crore would turn the arid Palamuru region into a desert, leaving its key irrigation projects including the Kodangal lift irrigation scheme, Palamuru-Rangareddy lift irrigation scheme and even the Srisailam dam totally crippled.

“Not a drop will reach us,” he stated.

Questioning why Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had so far

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