Karnataka, Tamil Nadu have both recorded deficient rains

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair a crucial meeting of the Cauvery River Authority (CRA) here on Wednesday to clinch a consensus on pro rata distress sharing of the water by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu as both have recorded deficient rains so far during the southwest monsoon. Among others, the meeting will be attended by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and her Karnataka counterpart Jagadish Shettar. Both will be accompanied by their Irrigation Ministers and senior officials.

As the Prime Minister chairs the meeting of the Cauvery River Authority on Wednesday after a gap of nine years, the Centre is hoping to persuade Karnataka to adhere to the formula laid down by the

TN govt uses 120-year-old pact to stall tank renewal project

The Karnataka government believes the Tamil Nadu government might have thrown a spoke in its plans for a tank irrigation project, using a 120-year-old agreement between the erstwhile governments of Mysore and Madras. A committee, which clears Central government-funded projects, rejected the State government’s proposal to use sewage water generated in Bangalore to fill up dried tanks in Chikkaballapur and Hoskote under a Central irrigation programme. The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) said no to using sewage water from the City to fill up the dried tanks under the Centre’s Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme because of a hitherto unknown agreement signed on February 18, 1892, between Mysore and Madras.

It would be the first meeting of CRA after UPA government assumed power in 2004

The suburban areas around Bangalore city are set to get adequate drinking water by the first week of October as the City’s much awaited drinking water project has been completed. Over two million people would get adequate clean drinking water from river Cauvery next month with the completion of an ambitious project — Cauvery IV stage II phase — at Thorekadanahalli in Malavalli taluk of Mandya district on Friday.

State-owned BWSSB has completed the Rs 1,769 crore project to supply 500 mn litres per day water to suburbs of the tech city
Mahesh Kulkarni

The suburban areas around Bangalore city are set to get adequate drinking water by the first week of October as the City's much awaited drinking water project has been completed. Over two million people would get adequate clean drinking water from river Cauvery next month with the completion of an ambitious project -- Cauvery IV stage II phase -- at Thorekadanahalli in Malavalli taluk of Mandya district on Friday.

Shettar would hold another round of floor leaders' meeting on Sept 15 before attending the CRA meeting

An all-party meeting convened by Karnataka government on Tuesday resolved to urge the Cauvery River Authority headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to evolve a distress formula based on ground realities on sharing of the river waters with Tamil Nadu and other riparian states. A consensus to this effect was reached at a meeting of floor leaders of political parties in the state legislature, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar, who convened the meeting ahead of the CRA meeting to be held on September 19 in Delhi, told reporters here.

Tamil Nadu got an “ad-hoc” assurance from Karnataka of 10,000 cusecs flow of water from Cauvery River to be maintained till the crucial meeting of the Prime Minister-led Cauvery River Authority (CR

Karnataka Monday agreed to release 10,000 cusecs of water from Cauvery to Tamil Nadu as “a goodwill gesture”.

It will put forth distress situation at CRA meeting

Karnataka is making arrangements to adhere to the water release formula as made out before the Supreme Court on Monday even as preparations are afoot at a feverish pace to put forth the State’s distress before a meeting of the Cauvery River Authority to be chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on September 19.