The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has decided to ask the State government to bear the excess expenditure that has come up while executing works related to the Second phase of Cauvery Water Supply Project Stage IV.
A considerable portion of the wall lining the open canal that runs between the Shiva anaicut (Shivanasamudra in Mandya district) and the Netkal Balancing Reservoir (NBR) and carries Cauvery waters to Bangalore breached recently.
CHENNAI: The second Cauvery Combined Drinking Water Scheme will be implemented at a cost of Rs.47.74 crore and will benefit Kankeyam town panchayat (now elevated as municipality), Vellakoil Municipality and 174 rural habitations, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said on Monday.
VELLORE: Work on the Cauvery Integrated Drinking Water Supply Scheme to be implemented at a cost of Rs.1,800 crore to bring water from the Cauvery River to Vellore district would be started soon, according to Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin.
When the Second Phase of the Cauvery Stage IV project gets commissioned by 2011 end, the City will end up utilising every drop of the 19 TMC feet of water allocated to it by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
With the Tamil Nadu opposition parties, the AIADMK and the PMK, accusing the ruling DMK of not implementing the Hogenakkal drinking water project, using the Cauvery water, the dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu is back in the limelight.
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal was established in 1990, under the Inter-State Water Disputes Act, at a specific direction of the Supreme Court. Ironically, and despite a constitutional and statutory bar on jurisdiction, the court has made it very difficult for the Tribunal to function in accordance with the Act.
