Mekedatu Issue

👉Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are again at the crossroads against the Mekedatu dam project in the Cauvery River Basin.

👉Mekedatu, meaning goat’s leap, is a deep gorge situated at the confluence of the rivers Cauvery and Arkavathi, about 100 km from Bengaluru, at the Kanakapura taluk in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district.

👉In 2013, then Karnataka announced the construction of a multi-purpose balancing reservoir project.

👉The project aimed to alleviate the drinking water problems of the Bengaluru and Ramanagara districts.

👉It was also expected to generate hydroelectricity to meet the power needs of the state.

👉TN has objected over granting of permission or environmental clearance.

👉Explaining the potential for damage to the lower riparian state of TN, it said that the project was in violation of the final award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.

👉It stated that the project will affect the natural flow of the river Cauvery considerably and will severely affect the irrigation in TN.

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Krishna Water Dispute

👉The dispute began with the erstwhile Hyderabad and Mysore states, and later continued between successors Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.

👉In 1969, the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal (KWDT) was set up under the Inter-State River Water Dispute Act, 1956, and presented its report in 1973.

👉The report, which was published in 1976, divided the 2060 TMC (thousand million cubic feet) of Krishna water at 75 per cent dependability into three parts.

👉Karnataka had sought the vacation of a November 16, 2011, order of the Supreme Court that stopped the Centre from publishing in the Official Gazette (under Section 6(1) of the Inter-State Water Disputes Act of 1956) the final order of the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal II (KWDT) pronounced in December 2010, allocating the river water to Karnataka, erstwhile Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

👉The publication of the tribunal order is a necessary precondition for its implementation.

👉As new grievances arose between the states, the second KWDT was instituted in 2004.

🛑It delivered its report in 2010, which made allocations of the Krishna water at 65 per cent dependability and for surplus flows as follows:

❇️81 TMC for Maharashtra, 177 TMC for Karnataka, and 190 TMC for Andhra Pradesh.


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