Vijayawada: Claiming that AP would divert Godavari water of 423 tmc-ft through construction of the Polavaram and Polavaram-Banakacherla projects, Karnataka has claimed its right to make additional use of 64.75 tmc-ft of water as per the inter-state agreement. In a letter addressed to the Union Jal Shakti ministry, the Karnataka government said the Polavaram-Banakacherla link project involved a diversion of 243 tmc-ft of water at the rate of two tmc-ft per day for 115 days from Polavaram. It said, “The diverted water would be dropped into Prakasam barrage across Krishna river upstream of the barrage by gravity. Through the backwaters of the Prakasam barrage, the required quantum of water would be diverted through multiple stages of lifts for storage enroute the proposed Bollapalli reservoir. Karnataka also maintained that AP was not having any exclusive right to utilise the imported water as was claimed in the pre-feasibility report.