Fact-Check: Video Of Srisailam Dam in AP Falsely Shared as Tripura's Dumbur Dam

This is Srisailam Dam in Andhra Pradesh and not Tripura.

A video showing a dam with excessive water flowing out of it is being shared on social media, with users identifying the location as the Dumbur Dam in Tripura.

Context: Following major flooding in Bangladesh, which affected almost 1.8 million individuals and resulted in five fatalities, the bordering country blamed the disaster on India's operation of the Dumbur dam on the Gomti River in Tripura. India's Ministry of External Affairs called this 'factually incorrect'.

(Archives of similar claims can be found here and here.)

Is this true?: The claim is false. The video shows the Srisailam Dam in Andhra Pradesh.

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What we found: We divided the video into multiple screenshots and ran a Google reverse image search on some of them.

• We came across the same video on YouTube stating the dam's location as Srisailam Dam in Andhra Pradesh. You can see some of the examples here and here.

• We then ran a keyword search on Google and came across multiple images of the Srisailam Dam, some of which matched the viral video.

• The results of the keyword search also showed the following examples.

• The keyword results also led us to a few news reports that had visuals similar to those of viral videos.

• A report by ETV Bharat from 30 July stated that the Srisailam reservoir's gates were opened due to "heavy inflows from upper reaches."

• Similarly, NTV Telugu also reported on this story about the gates of the dam being opened on 1 August.

Conclusion: The video is being falsely shared as the Dumbur Dam in Tripura.

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