Due to heavy rainfall in Maharashtra, Belagavi and Bagalkot, water level in the Krishna and its tributaries continued to rise on Wednesday.
In order to alert flooding of the backwaters, irrigation department officials began releasing 1.25 lakh cusecs of water from the Alamatti dam in Bagalkot district. For the first time in this season, the outflow has been more than the inflow of 1.04 lakh cusecs.
Though the release from Maharashtra dams was minimal, the discharge into the river was over 1.2 lakh cusecs, due to rain in the pre catchment and catchment areas, officials said.
