Everytime Karnataka cried that it was meted out injustice by the Supreme court and the Tribunal and denied to obey the orders vehementely. Supreme court and tribunal ordered based on the all the points described by the previous posts and much more. Remember the centre sends grievence committee every year to these states to access the situation. Its TN who suffered despite of the court's order. I am sure Karnataka people are always misguided and provoked by their politicians and vedike activists regarding these facts for their narrow political gains. But the irony is Tamilnadu and its people are always blamed for these issues. Its like punishing the victims. I found some north indian friends who are mixing up Hindi/Tamil(or Ram setu) debate with this issue and abuse Tamils. If you dont know, kindly refrain from making such absurd comments
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 04, 2008 01:32 PM Permalink
By meting out severe injustice to TN people on all these issues, now they are hell bent to derail the drinking water supply project(which they have already agreed in exchange of Bangalore water supply project) to two heavily water starved districts of northern TN(that too from TN's side). Have humanistic feelings towards your brothers and sisters.
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by ganesh on Apr 04, 2008 01:50 PM Permalink
Injustice is actually towards Karnataka, most of the time. The Tribunal makes very tamilnadu centric decisions if they were to be obeyed, it would put Karnataka farmers in distress!
The only way out for tamilnadu is to increase your rain water harvesting and not rely on cauvery alone!
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 04, 2008 02:03 PM Permalink
You are wrong. Tribunal's orders are also better weighed ones. You cannot justify equal sharing of water because the total extent of land cultivated in both the states vary enormously. For your information, Tamilnadu is the first state in India to have compulsory individual rain water harvesting in all households and establishments to fight drought(one of the appreciated moves of the then TN govt) and thatswhy the groundwater level has increased to good extent in recent years. Poor people were provided interest free loans to accomplish this task.
Even rain harvesting cannot prevent sudden flow of flood that too in monsoons.
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 04, 2008 02:05 PM Permalink
By the way Ganesh,when in the past had karnataka obeyed Tribunal's or even Supreme court's orders?.
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by saigeetha jagannathan on Apr 04, 2008 02:34 PM Permalink
Morover, every year Karnataka gets more rainfall due to south west monsoon along the western ghats similar to kerala whereas TN is in water shadow region but gets from North east monsoon primarily by cyclones. About 8 years back,the north east monsoon failed and karnataka failed to release even half of the allocated water, farmers were at the verge of collapse as all the three types of paddy crops destryed due to severe drought. TN Govt again came to the rescue by waiving all the loans provided by Tamilnadu Cooperative societies. The good thing is that TN farmers never borrow money from money lenders and hence survive even during acute crisis.
