The Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) on Friday gave its approval to the decision of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) asking Karnataka to release 2,600 cubic feet per second (cusecs) to Tamil Nadu till November 23.
The ratification meant that the upper riparian State would have to release 5.17 thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft) in the next three weeks. Early this week, when the CWRC took its decision, Karnataka ’s Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, also in charge of the Water Resources portfolio, said the State did not have any water to release. As on date, four reservoirs of Karnataka had a combined storage of about 56 tmc ft, according to a post on the social media handle (X) of the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC).
