The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee has advised the Tamil Nadu government to be cautious about water use from its Mettur reservoirs as the northeast monsoon is about to end and the reservoir level is almost five per cent lesser than normal. However, Karnataka has so far released 279.8 thousand million cubic feet of Cauvery water as against the required 161.41 …
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 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 …
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to intervene either in favour of Karnataka or Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water dispute, instead it banked on the combined expertise of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee and the Cauvery Water Management Authority to manage the water sharing between the two neighbouring States. Senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi and G. Umapathy, for Tamil Nadu, …
Karnataka has told the Centre that the decision of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee asking the State to release water at the rate of 5,000 cusecs daily cannot be practically implemented. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, in a letter to Union Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, has said that it cannot be practically implemented without endangering the interest of farmers for …