SC-LD CAUVERY 2 LAST

On September 2, the Supreme Court had made an emotional On September 2, the Supreme Court had made an emotionalappeal to Karnataka saying ‘live and let live’, after TamilNadu brought to the notice of the court that the Karnataka CMhas said that not a drop of water will be released to it. In a recent plea, Tamil Nadu had sought a direction toKarnataka to release 50.52 tmc feet of Cauvery water to save40,000 acres of samba crops this season. The apex court had earlier refused to give an urgenthearing to Tamil Nadu’s plea for setting up of CauveryManagement Board for implementation of the CWDT award. At the directions of the apex court, the Centre, in 2013,had notified the final award of the CWDT on sharing of waterof the Cauvery system among the basin states of Karnataka,Tamil Nadu and Kerala and union territory of Puducherry. The CWDT had recommended the setting up of a CauveryManagement Board/Authority on the lines of the Bhakra BeasManagement Board for implementation of the order. The board, in turn, would constitute a Cauvery WaterRegulation Committee for assistance. The Tribunal, in a unanimous decision in 2007, haddetermined the total availability of water in the Cauverybasin at 740 thousand million cubic (tmc) feet at the LowerColeroon Anicut site, including 14 tmcft for environmentalprotection and seepage into the sea. The final award made an annual allocation of 419 tmcft toTamil Nadu in the entire Cauvery basin, 270 tmcft toKarnataka, 30 tmcft to Kerala and 7 tmcft to Puducherry. PTIPKS MNL SJK RKSARC