Telugu Ganga project

The Telugu Ganga project is a joint water supply scheme implemented in India in 1980s by the then Andhra Pradesh chief minister Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao and Tamil Nadu chief minister Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran to provide drinking water to Chennai City in Tamil Nadu.

From Poondi, water is distributed through a system of link canals to other storage reservoirs located at Red Hills, Sholavaram and Chembarambakkam.

The project was approved in 1977 after an agreement was reached between Tamil Nadu and the riparian states of Krishna River: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.

In 2002, the religious leader Sathya Sai Baba announced a scheme of restoration and lining of the canal; a private undertaking.

[4][5][6] The area has however continued to be threatened by illegal construction work and activity related to a project proposed to link the rivers of India.