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Karnataka dams likely to get 30 tmc ft more this month, says Cauvery panel

The direction of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee to Karnataka on the release of water to Tamil Nadu was based on its assessment that four Karnataka reservoirs would receive 30 tmcft more in the remaining period of the current month, going by the current trend of rainfall during the southwest monsoon, according to the minutes of the committee’s meeting held …

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After 5 years, Mettur dam misses its customary date of water release for irrigation

The opening of the Mettur dam in Salem, for irrigation in the Cauvery delta missed its customary date of June 12 this year. Meanwhile, the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee ’s meeting, the first during the current water year of 2024-25, has been postponed to June 14 from June 13, in view of the preoccupation of officials of the Tamil Nadu …

The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee at its meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday decided that Karnataka should release 3,000 cubic feet per second to Tamil Nadu from September 28 to October 15. The meeting of the CWRC, the assisting body for the Cauvery Water Management Authority, lasted nearly two hours and members of the panel, especially those from the States …

The story so far: On September 21, the Supreme Court asked Karnataka to continue releasing 5,000 cubic feet per second of water from the Cauvery river to Tamil Nadu for 15 days, in line with decisions of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee and the Cauvery Water Management Authority. Pointing out that 740 thousand million cubic feet of water would be …

Tamil Nadu Water Resources Minister Duraimurugan, on Wednesday, assured farmers of the Cauvery delta that the State government would make all efforts to ensure that they were not affected in any way. Answering questions of journalists on the reported refusal of the Karnataka government to comply with the latest decision of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee to release 5,000 cubic …

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