multi-purpose irrigation project

Polavaram Project is a multi-purpose irrigation project across the Godavari River in India

Sriram Sagar Project

• The Sriram Sagar Project (Telugu: శ్రీరాంసాగర్ ప్రాజెక్టు), also known as the Pochampadu Project is an Indian flood-flow project on the Godavari River. The Project is located in Nizamabad district, 3 km away from National Highway 7. It has been described by The Hindu as a "lifeline for a large part of Telangana".^[1]

Sriramsagar is an irrigation project across river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh to serve irrigational needs in Karimnagar, Warangal, Adilabad, Nalgonda, and Khammam districts. It also provides drinking water to Warangal town. There is a hydroelectric plant working at the dam site.

• Inchampalli Project is a proposed multipurpose project with hydro electricity generation, irrigation, flood control benefits,etc on the River Godavari.^[1] This project is proposed as joint project of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.^[2].
• The Balimela Reservoir is located in Malkangiri district, Orissa, India on the river Sileru which is tributory of Godavari river^[1]. The gross storage capacity of Balimela reservoir is 3610 million cubic meters
• Nizam Sagar Dam (Telugu: నిజాం సాగర్) is an Indian dam. It is a reservoir constructed across the Manjira River, a tributary of the [[Godavari River ^[1]

National River-Linking Project, which works under the aegis of the Indian Ministry of Water Resources, was designed to overcome the deficit in water in the country. As a part of this plan, surplus water from the Himalayan rivers is to be transferred to the peninsular rivers of India. This exercise, with a combined network of 30 river-links and a total length of 14,900 kilometres (9,300 mi) at an estimated cost of US$120 billion (in 1999), would be the largest ever infrastructure project in the world.^[1] In this project's case, the Godavari River basin^[2] is considered as a surplus one, while the Krishna River basin is considered to be a deficit one.^[3] As of 2008, 644 tmcft of underutilized water from Godavari River flowed into the Bay of Bengal.^[4] Based on the estimated water requirements in 2025, the Central Water Commission recommended that sizable surplus water was to be transferred from the Godavari River basin to the Krishna River basin.^[3] The project intends to use the diverted water for not only to benefit a cultivated command area of 175,000 hectares (430,000 acres), but also to supply water to coastal city of Visakhapatnam for domestic and industrial purposes through a 208 kilometres (129 mi) long canal.^[5]