HYDERABAD: Though it required 55 tmcft for Nagarjuna Sagar Project (NSP) to get filled, the inflows into the project were suddenly dropped to 1.2 lakh cusecs on Saturday.
The officials, however, stated that they were expecting some more water in the first week of September. As against the full storage capacity of 312.05 tmcft, the NSP had the current storage of 257.58 tmcft at 6 pm on Saturday. The outflows from Almatti were 1.15 lakh cusecs. Srisailam dam was getting 1.91 lakh cusecs.