Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha leader Badagalpura Nagendra said here on Wednesday, December 6, that a distress formula is a must to tide over the recurring problem of sharing Cauvery water between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
He was addressing the activists of Cauvery Kriya Samithi who were staging a demonstration against the Cauvery Water Management Authority’s recent directions to Karnataka to continue to release water to the lower riparian State.
Mr. Nagendra said even the quantum of water to be shared between the two States as stipulated by the Supreme Court, should be subject to review once in 10 years due to a decline in rain, an increase in population and growing urbanisation.
