Karnataka has reduced discharged from its reservoirs into the Cauvery after the Cauvery River Authority meeting on Wednesday.
Both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu expressed dissatisfaction over the PM’s ruling at the Cauvery meet. Tamil Nadu announced that it would move the Supreme Court to get its due share in the Cauvery water.
As per the Supreme Court’s direction Karnataka agreed to release 10,000 cusecs from September 11 to 19. It kept its commitment till some days back by maintaining a release of 9000 to 12,000 cusecs.
After the Cauvery River Authority meeting ended without any solution acceptable to both the states, Karnataka reduced the discharge by a significant quantum.
Sources in the Public Works Department expressed the concern that the supply would further drop to the levels prior to September 11 in the days to come.
Karnataka on Thursday released only 4,816 cusecs from Kabini Dam and 2,210 from Krishnaraja Sagar Dam. On Wednesday 9,083 cusecs and 2598 cusecs were released from Kabini and Krishnaraja Sagar respectively.
The Mettur dam’s inflows and the storage is expected to go down in the days to come because of a drastic inflow-discharge mismatch.
As against 10,820 cusecs inflow on Thursday 15,009 cusecs was discharged from Mettur dam for Samba cultivation. The level stood at 84.160 feet and the storage was 46.228 tmcft which would last hardly for another 30 days with the current discharge level.
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