Not for releasing water to Tamil Nadu, decision to be taken after meeting with experts: Siddaramaiah
He met the delegation of activists led by State Sugarcane Growers President Kuruburu Shanthakumar and Karnataka AAP President Mukhyamantri Chandru regarding the Cauvery dispute at his home office 'Krishna'.
Two committees will review the situation and issue orders regarding Cauvery water distribution, he said,
Noting that the order was to release water from the Biligundlu reservoir, he said that under normal circumstances, there is a mandate to release 177.25 tmc of water in a year.
«Our state needs 284.85 tmc of water.
No distress formula has been formulated in the Supreme Court,» the CM said, adding that the tribunal itself has decided to have 2 committees.
«We have been protesting every time a meeting was called. This year there was a problem due to no rain in August.
Even this month, there is hardly any rain. Tamil Nadu will receive rain in the month of September. So far 43 tmc of water has gone.
It has been ordered that 123 tmc of water should be released. But we have not released the water.
»We have been protesting every time the Cauvery Authority called a meeting.
We said that there is no water. We had filed an application before the Supreme Court. We need 70 tmc water for irrigation to sustain the crop, 30 tmc is required for drinking water, and industries require 3 tmc of water.
The state has a total requirement of 106 tmc. But we have only 50 tmc of water. Our first priority is drinking water," he said.
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