A day after the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) recommended release of 5,000 cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu for 15 days, Karnataka decided to appeal against it, citing the poor quantum of storage in four reservoirs owing to a record deficit rainfall in August.
While Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has sought the Centre’s intervention, Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, who holds the Water Resources portfolio, will meet the legal team in Delhi on September 13 night before the Karnataka government takes any decision on release of water.
“We will appeal against the September 12 order. The CWRC is only a recommendatory body. Let us see what happens. We will also approach the Supreme Court to convince them about the ground situation,” Mr. Siddaramaiah told presspersons after chairing an emergency all-party meeting in Bengaluru to inform the Opposition about the developments and elicit their feedback. In August 2023, the Cauvery basin in Karnataka recorded the least rainfall in the last 123 years, he said.
