Krishna talks drag; AP pushes, proof doesn’t

The Krishna allocation dispute is still where Delhi left it: unresolved. The Union Jal Shakti ministry’s own note on July 16, 2025 says Telangana and Andhra Pradesh agreed on telemetry and a committee of senior officials to work through the “remaining issues” — it does not record any final share for the two states. That is the last official line on the big question.

KRMB’s three-member committee has been used for immediate drinking-water needs — on May 12, 2026 it cleared 10 TMC from Nagarjuna Sagar to Andhra Pradesh and 22 TMC to Telangana (16 TMC from Nagarjuna Sagar, 6 TMC from Srisailam), according to published reports. That shows how operations have been managed in-season; it does not rewrite the unresolved allocation above it.

A claim doing the rounds says Andhra Pradesh wants a fresh three-member meeting to carve up currently available water — even 70% its way — before a full Board sits. The documents to prove that are not public: no KRMB agenda, no AP letter, no Telangana reply were available in the record we could check. KRMB itself lists that such minutes and correspondence exist; they are simply not on the site.

For context, an interim 512:299 (about 66:34) split sits in historical material, and “70:30” has been waved by both sides at different times — Telangana’s chief minister argued 70% for Telangana in 2025; earlier reports recorded AP writing for 70% to itself in 2021. None of that establishes what AP asked this week.

What matters to Telangana now is simple: the BJP-led Centre set up process without settling substance, KRMB keeps firefighting with committee meetings, and Andhra Pradesh’s latest posture arrives without the paperwork in view. Hyderabad can count TMC; it should not have to count on rumours.