Can 30 lakh people of two districts (Krishnagiri and Dharmapuri) be deprived of drinking water merely because there is an resolved border row between two States for 50 years? 5. If more Tamil Nadu districts suffer from water shortage, can TN build similar dams downstream and seek a corresponding increase in Cauvery water allocation to meet the new requirements?
Continuing on these lines I ask the following questions - entire of KA would like to hear earnest answers to these - from who - who else?!
a. For what is the Mettur dam built - which happens to be just about 40-50kms from Hogenakkal, and Dharmapuri district too. Our reservoir (KRS i.e.) standing about 150kms away still pushes water all the way up until the city of Bengalooru. Why not Mettur->Dharmapuri?
b. Hogenakal being under sub-judice of a border dispute, doesnt mean it doesnt belong to us. It originally belongs to Karnataka, and that is being disputed by TN. So until the dispute is settled, Karnataka completely owns this place until the last inch that falls inside (and on) the border separating the two states. Period. No damned black-goggled guy or an oversized lady (crossing borders wearing a bullet proofed seerE) can move a dry stick on this land without Karnataka%u2019s permission.
c. TN claims this project was given an NOC in %u201898 itself. So does that mean families living in Dharmapuri in TN lived with no water for 10 long years, and now the people of that district (still alive) cant take it anymore, an
