I think the peoples from both the states are going over board against each other (though both are good peace loving citizens & infinitely supporting towards each other) on the basis of media reports & politicians/extremists comments. They must understand the basic facts on which this verdict is out as an intellectual-looking-way rather than being emotional. 1) If all of us have agreed & appreciated the efforts and judgements of our jucidiary in Priyadarshini Matoo, Jessica Lal & "Void of laws in 9th Schedule", we must alteast re-look at the facts as this particular verdict has taken 17 years of working between well knowledged historians, scholars, lawyers, bureaucrats, level-minded representatives of both the states. 2) They have taken consideration of the facts & documents submitted before the tribunal on the complete cauvery basin in "as-is-where-is" basis of the last few decades till now & have to come to a conclusion 3) The major understanding has been done on the basis of "Agricultural lands, its crop pattern, its water requirements w.r.t FARMERS" and "Common peoples water requirement against available water resources". 4) The complete data on these facts have been provided by both the states, which have been verified, discussed, deliberated & mutually concluded among all the above mentioned knowledged peoples representing their states 5) Infact its taken 17years for the whole lot of well knowledged people after more than 550 sittings at various levels to discuss the matter as and when of getting new details which might be important before arriving at final conclusion. 6) So the Judiciary which is independent of "Parliament & Executive" has arrived at a conclusion based on the facts & details provided by the powers manning parliament. 7) Now the same powers (read politicians & their working class)responsible for providing details & upholding their point-of-view with nothing but mere-facts, have come out on the road fuelling intra-state-extremists & playing on sentiments of the common-citizens like you and me. 8) What do we do ? Probably I just vent out my opinion here in this forum & you might agree or hold your sentimental views based on your understandings / likings. That is absolutely right & ok. 9) But whats next? 10) After few days of fuelling attempts being done by both the state politicans to take advantage of their positions (benificiary state may trumpet self-glory & affected state may go defensive = both actions fuelling extremist activites against each other state peoples), it will stop after few days or weeks leaving the common people being the affected & few losses on account of human lives, economy, etc. Neverthless such acts now-a-days very common in this century as every country is progressing on individualism. 11) But one must understand that NUMBERS i.e. Karnataka would be releasing 192tmc water to TN in a year.Out of 419tmc allotted to TN from the cauvery basin, only 192tmc will go out of Karnataka basin, since the remaining are present in TN itself. Already Karnataka was ordered by the tribunal in 1990 to release 205tmc which resulted in Big Riots between both states with few losses in all areas. Since then Karnataka has been following this reluctantly & both side farmers & citizens have come to reconcile this fact slowly, but surely. 12) Hence the release of water is nothing new (though its a seperate story that addl 12tmc would go out of Karnataka due to Mettur/biddgnta logisticial positions). But the riots & other will happen irrepsective the position being almost same. 13) As the whole calculation is happening on the basis of "Accumulated water in Cauvery basin being 740tmc on NATURAL RAIN" and not any scientific measures. 14) Due to any monsoon changes (which is very likely due to geo-environmental changes) if the acculmulated water being insufficient of the estimated 740tmc, every state will feel the shortage & the resultant losses will felt by both farmers & the common citizens. 15) In such monsoon-affected sceneario's Karnataka can't be pushed to release the allotted numbers due to short-falls at its own region. 16) Hence this issue is going to be an ever-permenant matter for both the side state politiciants to use as a tool for election & selfish-party gains, like 'Hindutva-with-BJP' & 'Minority-appeasement-with-Congress'. 17) What NOW? 18) As an affected state Karnataka (if it feels so - as none of the important & knowledged political or mass leader has thrown any challengeable facts for the STATE to act intelligently for an appeal) can appeal with its own MERIT points for a redressal, which shall easily take another few years for the court to understand & give judgement. Till this final judgement they need not consider the 192tmc, but have to adhere to the earlier 1990verdict of 205tmc. 19) Even if there is an appeal or no appeal, still Karnataka may / need / necessarily not release 192tmc on the grounds of Rain-shortfall, Agricultural-pattern-change-in-the-state leading to more water requirement, Internal-state-civil-unrest-among-farmers, OR for purely-political-nous. 20) In such a scenario too, the aggreived state (who else TN) can only approach Centre or Court to resolve the disputs & ask them to ensure Karnataka releases its quota of water. This means again a political-twist-between the states with each having its own weights & counter-weights at Centre, hence a EVER-LONG-POLITICAL-AGENDA at SOUTH for politicians being "CAUVERY WATERS". 21) Because Judiciary can only be an upholder of unbiased, bipartisan rights for each citizents/state, but can't direct the Parliament to behave or dictate its processess. 22) Oh God. Whatever you would have thought after creating us, but we ourselves are creating much-better-things for our FUTURE.
