Maharashtra-Karnataka water dispute: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday wrote to his Maharashtra counterpart Eknath Shinde requesting him to direct the involved authorities to instantly launch 2.00 TMC of water from Warna/Koyna reservoir to Krishna river and three.00 TMC of water from Ujjani Reservoir to Bhima river to meet the consuming water wants of each people and livestock of Northern Karnataka.
Decades-old water disputes between states
Karnataka is at loggerheads not solely with Maharashtra however with neighboring Tamil Nadu. Interstate river water disputes within the south embody the Cauvery difficulty between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka and Krishna river water sharing dispute involving Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Centre, Supreme Court, High Courts, Central Water Commission, Cauvery River Management Authority (CRMA) and Cauvery Water Regulation Committee (CWRC) have been making an attempt to resolve the long-standing difficulty however the matter could be very advanced and it’ll impression lakhs of farmers in virtually all stakeholder state.Â
Home Minister Shah stepped inÂ
Last yr in September, Union Home Minister Amit Shah urged southern states to discover a joint resolution for river water sharing points. In his handle on the thirtieth southern zonal council meet held right here and attended by chief ministers and Lieutenant Governors of southern states and union territories, he additionally requested Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to mutually resolve their pending points.
In the thirtieth assembly of the Southern Zonal Council held at Thiruvananthapuram in September 2022, a complete of 26 points had been mentioned, 9 points had been resolved, 17 points had been reserved for additional consideration out of which 9 points had been associated to the reorganisation of Andhra Pradesh, a assertion launched after the meet learn.
