Cauvery water dispute

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its order on maintainability of appeals filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala against the 2007 award of the Cauvery water dispute Tribunal (CWDT). The parties have been asked to file written submissions by October 24. The order will be passed thereafter.

People are expressing concern over the implications of the recent notification of the Cauvery water disputes' Tribunal on Bangalore. What would be the impact of the notification on the drinking water needs of the metropolitan city?

Farmers leader and Melkote MLA K S Puttannaiah on Tuesday asked Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to negotiate and build two reservoirs on either side of Hogenakkal, the common boundary between the two riparian states.

The Tamil Nadu-Karnataka Cauvery water dispute has escalated to a new level. The fight now is for potable water for Chennai and Bengaluru, two southern cities that have been rapidly expanding due to the increasing migrant population.

Terming the Supreme Court's order directing Karnataka to release 6,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu till September 27 as "unimplementable", Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has called for a cabinet and an all-party meeting on Wednesday to chalk out the next step.

Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday admitted that today's Supreme Court judgment in the Cauvery water dispute was "disappointing," reported ANI.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa today requested the Centre to expedite steps for notification of the final award of the Cauvery water disputes Tribunal.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention and advice to Karnataka government not to take up any schemes, including hydro-electric projects, in the Cauvery basin without her state's consent.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it would deliver within a month its verdict on the decades old Cauvery water dispute between riparian states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, saying enough confusion has been created on it for over two decades.

Setting the stage for a fresh round of political bickering, the Supreme Court on Monday accused the Centre of abdicating its duty by not notifying the six-year-old final award of the Cauvery water disputes Tribunal and directed it to do so by February 20.

In his bid to make political forays into the Vokkaliga heartland, former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa on Thursday began his weeklong padayatra from Mysore to Bangalore seeking the Prime Minister's intervention in the Cauvery water dispute.

Karnataka cabinet resolved to oppose the Centre's move to notify the Cauvery water disputes Tribunal's final Award due to depleted storage level in Cauvery basin reservoirs after releasing water to Tamil Nadu on two occasions recently.

The state will soon launch efforts to build a consensus for constructing mini dams for utilizing the 30 TMC water allocated to it as per the Cauvery water disputes Tribunal (CWDT).

The 121-year-old dispute over the sharing of water took a new course with the Centre notifying the Cauvery water disputes Tribunal's final award.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday termed the Supreme Court's fresh order on release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu as "unimplementable" and called an all party and cabinet meeting tomorrow to decide the next step, even as prohibitory orders were enforced across Bengaluru.