Witness appearing for Telangana before the Brijesh Kumar Tribunal (KWDT-II) K. Palanisami, a retired water management scientist, has justified that variation in the effective rainfall would be minimal if more numbers of years are used for calculating evapotranspiration and crop water requirement (CWR).
Replying to questions posed by senior advocate appearing for Andhra Pradesh R. Venkataramani on Monday, Mr. Palanisami said the variation in the effective rainfall would be minimum since the rainfall is not directly taken for the calculation of effective rainfall but the monthly rainfall is correlated with the monthly consumptive use of the crop to arrive at the effective rainfall.
The clarification was given when he was asked by citing effective rainfall data for Gooty, Uravakonda, Tadipatri, Guntakal, Pamidi, Peddavadugur, Peddapuram, Putlur and Krishna Delta System areas in AP and Jurala and Nettempadu areas in Telangana that reckoning of data which is not homogenous and inconsistent would lead to erroneous results in the computation of crop water requirement.
