Hyderabad, July 8 -- Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu welcomed Krishna waters to his state by performing Jala Harathi at the Srisailam project on Tuesday, July 8.

This year, the water was released three weeks before the scheduled date.

As of Tuesday, the current storage capacity reached 196.56 TMC due to the heavy inflows from the Srisailam project. The maximum storage capacity is 215.81 TMC. The water level has reached 881.60 ft, just 4.5 ft away from reaching the brim.

In the last 24 hours, the average inflow was recorded as 1,53,672 cusecs of water.

This year, from July 1 to July 5, 125 TMC was recorded, a sharp rise compared to the average inflow of 12.26 TMC for the same period over the last 15 years.

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