We are all Indians first, I want to write this note with facts and reality than sentiment.
Problem with Kaveri issue is, lack of facts, more of emotion and opinion. Water sharing is a technical process which have to be carry out by Ecologist and Irrigation experts not by Tamil, Kannada fundamentalists or politicians.
The length of Kaveri River is 800 kilometer, 320 Km in Karnataka and the remaining 480 km in Tamil Nadu (and Kerala border). Tamil Nadu state constructed 3 dams (Mettur, Bhavani Sagar and Amaravathi) which has total capacity of 136 TMC of water. There are 3 dams constructed by Karnataka (KRS, Kabini and Harangi) which has total capacity of 104 TMC of water.
Karnataka requires 81 TMC of water to cater drinking water requirements and water for farming. However the total water currently available in all the 3 dams is only 56 TMC, out of which 22 TMC water is a dead water (below the dam gates). This statistics highlights that Karnataka has scarcity of 47 TMC of water.
On the contrary Tamil Nadu claims for 20 TMC of water so that the state is able to satisfy the demands of its farmers for growing commercial crops in March 2017.
Tamil Nadu’s irrigated lands had grown over the last 3-5 decades from an area of 1,440,000 acres to 2,580,000 acres, there are 1,140,000 forest land has been converted to farming land. While Karnataka’s irrigated area stood at 680,000 acres, no changes to the irrigated lands. Tamil Nadu demanding the additional share of the water to sustain its additional agricultural activity.
With 90% of the monsoon season over and little or no further rainfall expected, Karnataka is facing an serious shortage of water to drink also. At this moment Tamil Nadu Government is demanding for 20 TMC of water which they will be utilizing for the summer commercial crop.
The greedy approach of Tamil Nadu has disappointed the Karnataka people and which is the reason of Bundh called on this Friday…
By Shiva
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