Cauvery panel orders Karnataka to release water to Tamil Nadu
Quick dive
- The Cauvery Water Regulation Committee directed Karnataka to ensure 3,000 cusecs daily at Biligundlu for 15 days from October 24.
- Tamil Nadu had sought 18.402 tmcft, including a claimed backlog of 13.829 tmcft; the panel’s order amounts to about 3.88 tmcft.
- Karnataka reported 122.293 tmcft inflow against a 30-year average of 273.865 tmcft, a 55.35% deficit, and said 226 of 240 taluks were drought-affected.
- Karnataka said its reservoirs held 46.510 tmcft on October 22 and that about 43 tmcft was needed for drinking water and other priority uses.
- exam_relevance: tests the institutional chain CWRC–CWMA, distress-year water sharing and Biligundlu as the measuring point; UPSC has previously examined tribunal-based river-water mechanisms and federal disputes.
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