Farmers organisations have urged the State government to request the Maharashtra government to release Krishna river water from its dams, to ease water scarcity in the border districts of Karnataka.
“Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha, Hasiru Sene and Krishik Samaj leaders have written to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to request Eknath Shinde, his counterpart in Mumbai, to release water from the reservoirs in Maharashtra,” Choonappa Pujari, farmers leader, said.
“We have asked the Chief Minister to talk to Mr. Shinde and ask him to take steps to release water as soon as possible. Hundreds of villages on the banks of the Krishna and its tributaries are suffering from water scarcity in the border districts of Karnataka,” he said.
