The record floods in the Godavari have displaced lakhs of people and left hundreds of villages waterlogged, throwing normal life out of gear for days.
This has once again brought to fore the plight of people residing in the flood-prone areas across the State. People living in several other areas in the vicinity of major rivers such as the Krishna, Penna, Vamsadhara and Nagavali, as well as some minor rivers, face the same ordeal whenever inflows into the rivers rise.
Floods in the rivers of the State particularly in Krishna and Godavari, the largest eastward draining rivers in Peninsular India, occur due to the inflows from other States where excessive rainwater collected in the catchment area is discharged into the sea.
