CWRC recommends Karnataka to release 1 TMC Cauvery water daily to Tamil Nadu
The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) has recommended Karnataka to release 1 TMC Cauvery water daily from July 12 to July 31 to Tamil Nadu.
The CWRC, in its meeting held on Thursday in New Delhi, took this decision and directed to release 11,500 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu daily till the end of July.
A team of senior officials and lawyers from the Karnataka State Water Resources Department argued that the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee should wait till July 25 to announce its decision regarding the release of water to Tamil Nadu. Four reservoirs of Cauvery suffer from the lack of inflow. The cumulative inflow into the four reservoirs of Karnataka from June 1 to July 9 is 41.651 TMC. The cumulative inflow deficit in four reservoirs including KRS and Kabini in Karnataka is 28.71 per cent.
At present the water storage in Cauvery reservoirs in Karnataka is 58.66 TMC. 4.905 TMC water from Mettur and 0.618 TMC water from Bhavani (total of 5.542 TMC) has been released into the river, and 24.705 TMC water is in three reservoirs of Tamil Nadu.