New Delhi : The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee(CWRC) has rejected the Tamil Nadu government’s demand for the release of 5.317 tmcft Cauvery water from Karnataka in May. In the CWRC meeting on Tuesday, chaired by its chairman Vineet Gupta, Tamil Nadu said that Karnataka has continued with the violation of the Cauvery Water controversy Tribunal final order modified by the Supreme Court on releasing water to it.
Still, Karnataka maintained that it has been facing a severe water crisis and that the available water in its reservoirs would be sufficient only to meet the drinking water requirements. The Tamil Nadu sanctioned refocused out that Karnataka had released 78.728 tmcft of water as against 174.497 tmcft of water between June 1, 2023 and April 28 this time.
The space was 95.770 tmcft of water, the functionary claimed. The Karnataka government had released 2.016 tmcft of water against the specified volume of 7.333 tmcft from February 1 and April 28, Tamil Nadu claimed. Tamil Nadu, in the meeting, also demanded that the upper riparian state should release the space of environmental inflow to the tune of 5.317 tmcft in May.
The CWRC, still noted low water storehouse in Cauvery receptacle budgets in all receptacle countries. Water in Karnataka’s budgets was so low that it was delicate to maintain indeed the natural inflow. slightly 150 cusec of water reaches the interstate point Biligundulu each day, the Committee noted. The commission refused Tamil Nadu’s demand to direct the Karnataka government to insure the release of the backlog of Cauvery water and maintain environmental inflow as per the final award of the Cauvery Water controversies Tribunal(CWDT) modified by the Supreme Court.
As per CWDT, Karnataka needs to insure environmental overflows at Biligundulu by icing the release of around 1000 cusecs per day, i.e., 2.5 tmcft from February to May. The CWRC was of the view that available storehouse in the budgets in the Cauvery Basin in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala was sufficient enough to meet the demand towards drinking water and environmental overflows till the thunderstorm season thresholds. The coming meeting of CWRC is listed for May 16.
