{"id":26317,"date":"2026-07-15T11:28:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26317"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:04:00","slug":"krishna-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/krishna-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Krishna River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Krishna River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A week-long dry spell in the Western Ghats of Karnataka and Maharashtra has significantly reduced water inflows into the Krishna river and its tributaries. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Krishna River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna River, also known as <\/span><b>Krishnaveni<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a river of <\/span><b>south-central India.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>India\u2019s fourth-largest river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by water inflows and basin area after the<\/span><b> Ganga, Godavari, and Brahmaputra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It stretches approximately<\/span><b> 1400 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river <\/span><b>rises <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in<\/span><b> western Maharashtra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> state in the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b> Western Ghats<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> range near the town of <\/span><b>Mahabaleshwar, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not far from the coast of the Arabian Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It passes through the Indian states of <\/span><b>Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>meets the Bay of Bengal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Hamasaladeevi in<\/span><b> Andhra Pradesh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the east coast.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna River Basin extends over an area of about 258,948 sq.km., which is nearly 8 percent of the total geographical area of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>bounded <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the<\/span><b> Balaghat range on the north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, by the<\/span><b> Eastern Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the <\/span><b>south <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the east, and by the <\/span><b>Western Ghats on the west<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The principal <\/span><b>tributaries <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">joining Krishna are the <\/span><b>Ghataprabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Malaprabha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>Bhima,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>Tungabhadra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><b>Musi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Krishna River and its tributaries create many beautiful <\/span><b>waterfalls, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">such as:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Gokak Falls<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Kalhati Falls<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theertham Falls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manikyadhara Falls<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Hampi Waterfall<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (formed by the <\/span><b>Tungabhadra <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">River)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Magod Falls (in the Yellapur taluk of North Canara district)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>major dams<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the Krishna are the Lal Bahadur <\/span><b>Shastri Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (also known as<\/span><b> Almatti Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), the <\/span><b>Nagarjuna Sagar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><b> Srisailam Da<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">m, the Dhom Dam, the Narayanpur Dam, and the Jurala Dam.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, the Krishna River has been the lifeline for ancient kingdoms such as the <\/span><b>Satavahanas and the Vijayanagara Empire.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/karnataka\/dry-spell-hits-krishna-inflow-no-water-release-for-irrigation-4072575#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krishna River  is a river in south-central India. Read more about Krishna River, Origin, Tributaries, Course, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2293,21,22,8577],"class_list":["post-26317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-krishna-river","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairsprelims-pointers","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113353,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26317\/revisions\/113353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}