With the 15-day spell of water release, as fixed by the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA), coming to an end on Tuesday, and the storage of the Mettur dam continuing to dwindle, Tamil Nadu is set to demand, at a meeting of the Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC), that Karnataka wipe out a shortfall of about nine thousand million cubic feet (tmc ft).
The Committee’s meeting is scheduled to be held in hybrid mode on Tuesday. When the CWRC last met on August 28, it recommended that 5,000 cusecs be released for 15 days, and this was accepted by the CWMA, which met the following day.
Last week, Karnataka submitted before the Supreme Court that it might not be feasible to release any water from its reservoirs after September 12, citing a “severe drought situation” in the Cauvery and Krishna basins.
