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Cauvery dispute: SC directs Karnataka to release 15000 cusec water for TN

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The Supreme Court directed the Karnataka government on Monday to release 15,000 cusec of Cauvery river water to Tamil Nadu for next 10 days to meet the demand of the summer crop in the state.

The bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, asked the Supervisory Committee to look into Tamil Nadu’s plea over the deficiency in the supply of 60 tmcft of water from June to August.

It gave Tamil Nadu three days time to approach the Supervisory Committee with its grievance. The court gave three days time to Karnataka to respond to the plea by Tamil Nadu.

The bench asked the Supervisory Committee to examine the matter in four days and pass appropriate directions. The court directed listing of the matter for further hearing on September 16.

The Cauvery water dispute is more than a century old. The first trouble arose in 1881 as the then Mysore state planned to build a dam across the Cauvery. The state of Madras (now Chennai) objected to it. An agreement was reached with British mediation in 1892. Another agreement was signed in 1924.

However, the dispute over distribution of Cauvery water continued and it was only in 1990 that the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was set up.

The Cauvery tribunal distributed the river water among four riparian states. It allocated 419 TMC feet of water to Tamil Nadu, 270 to Karnataka, 30 to Kerala (as a tributary of Cauvery flows through it) and 7 to Pudducherry (situated at the mouth of Cauvery).

The tribunal, in its findings, said that the Cauvery has a total of 740 TMC feet of water at 50 per cent dependability over a period of hundred years. On the basis of the average water availability, the tribunal mandated Karnataka to release 192 TMC feet of water every water year i.e. between June and May.

But, the tribunal also said that during bad monsoon, the states must share water distress in the same proportion.

This provision has led to perpetuation of water dispute between the two neighbouring states.
Karnataka has maintained that the state has received low rainfall and it doesn’t have enough water supply to share with Tamil Nadu.

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