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`Enforce distress formula on sharing Cauvery water'

By Our Staff Reporter

NAGAPATTINAM, JUNE 9. The composite Thanjavur District Farmers' Association has urged the Centre to convene the Cauvery River Authority immediately and enforce the formula on the sharing of the river's water in distress situations as finalised by the Central Water Commission.

Reacting to the Centre's decision to send a three-member team, comprising commissioner-level engineers from the Union Ministry of Water Resources and the Commission and a senior scientist from the Ministry of Agriculture to Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, to assess the water requirement and the present water storage level, K.G. Krishnamoorthy, vice-president, Thanjavur District Farmers' Association, told The Hindu today that several committees had come and assessed the situation and recommended the requirement of water.

He said the Cauvery monitoring cell had also recommended the formula on the sharing of water in distress situations finalised by the Commission to the Authority. Unfortunately Karnataka had not accepted it. Hence, the Authority should be convened to reach an immediate solution and the distress formula should be enforced in Karnataka so that Tamil Nadu can get its share of water to carry out kuruvai cultivation in the Cauvery delta. The plan to send a new team would only delay the matter, he added.

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