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By Gargi Parsai
Mr. Vajpayee, who is also Chairman, Cauvery Water Authority, rang up the Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna, and urged him to release the water to its neighbouring State as a "goodwill gesture,'' sources said. The Tamil Nadu Government had sought the Prime Minister's intervention in the matter. According to Tamil Nadu, as against a total of 205 tmc ft that it must receive from Karnataka in a water year (June to May) — as per the interim award of the Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal — it received only 162.75 tmc ft water till May 31 at its Mettur reservoir. In June, as against 10.16 tmc ft, it received only 1.56 tmc ft. It is now pressing the Centre to prevail upon Karnataka to make good the shortfall. However, Karnataka has expressed its "inability'' to release water to Tamil Nadu as the storage level in its own reservoirs was low. The other party States in the dispute are Pondicherry and Kerala. On Monday, Mr. Vajpayee sought from the Water Resources Ministry records of the storage positions and the rainfall pattern in both the States in the last 10 years. According to sources here, the active storage, over and above the minimum required, in all the four Karnataka reservoirs — Krishnasagar, Harangi, Hemavati and Kabini — is 5.22 tmc ft, while the storage in Mettur reservoir is 9.79 tmc ft, including the minimum storage level required. The interim award calls for making good a shortfall in releases in the following month. However, in its last few meetings, the Cauvery River Monitoring Committee, comprising the Water Resources Secretary and the Chief Secretaries of the riparian States, attempted to evolve a formula for sharing Cauvery waters during a "distress year.'' But subsequently, the main parties said the tribunal was working out a formula for distress and since the matter was sub judice before the tribunal, the Monitoring Committee should await the final award. The Cauvery River Authority was constituted on the orders of the Supreme Court, as a mechanism for ensuring the implementation of the interim award of the tribunal. The Monitoring Committee of officials was set up to assist the Authority. The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Jayalalithaa, has sought more teeth to the CRA for the implementation of the interim award. `Not enough' Our Chennai Special Correspondent writes: Tamil Nadu has said that 3 tmc ft of water is not sufficient. The State Public Works Minister, O. Paneerselvam, urged Mr. Vajpayee to impress upon Karnataka to release adequate water for "kuruvai" cultivation in the Cauvery delta. The storage in Mettur was now only 9.798 tmc ft. After deducting the dead storage amount, only 4.798 tmc ft was available for irrigation, he said in a statement.
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