This presentation is prepared by Yatheesh Bharadwaj, Social worker, Mysuru

2. A PRESENTATION BY
YATHEESH
BHARADWAJ
ROLL
NO.SPQ140965

3. TABLE OF CONTENT
 Introduction
What is this Cauvery water dispute?
Post- independence developments
The constitution of the tribunal and its Impact
Crucial events happened in the history
Recent developments– August and September,2016
About Suggestions from film actor upendra and
political activist Subramanian swami.

4. Introduction
• The sharing of waters of the Kaveri river has
been the source of a serious conflict between
the two Indian states of Tamil Nadu and
Karnataka.
• The HISTORY of this conflict rests in two
agreements in 1892 and 1924 between the
erstwhile Madras Presidency and Princely
State of Mysore.

5. Origin of river Cauvery
• The river Cauvery rises in the Brahmagiri
range of the western Ghats in the Coorg
district of Karnataka at an elevation of
about 1340 m.
• Harangi, Hemavathi, Shimsha, Arkavathi,
Lakshman thirtha and Swarnavathi are the
major tributaries of cauvery.

6. Flowings…….
• It flows to kerala through kabini dam, Cauvery
river is very much essential for wayanad district
of kerala.
• The Cauvery continues its journey towards East
and in that process it forms the boundary
between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for a
distance of about 64 km. (40 miles). Yet another
tributary i.e. Arkavathi joins the river just before
it enters Tamil Nadu State.

7. Why dispute started ???
• unfortunately has become a source of dispute and
conflict between the State of Madras/Tamil Nadu and
the State of Mysore/Karnataka for sharing its water for
more than 150 years.
• In 19th century, mysore state started new irrigation
projects. But madras presidency opposed this for the first
time in 1890
• An Agreement in 1892.
• Agree to share the water – “LIVE AND LET LIVE ….!!!”

8. • Things came to a head in 1910
when Mysuru, under Nalvadi
Krishnaraja Wodeyar as the
king and Capt. Dawes as Chief
Engineer came up with a plan
to construct a dam at
Kannambadi village to hold up
to 41.5 TMC of water.

9. • The dam was planned to be built in two
stages. In the first stage a capacity of 11 TMC
was envisioned, while in the second stage the
full capacity was set to be realized.
• Madras however, refused to give its consent
for this move as it had its own plans to build a
storage dam at Mettur with a capacity of 80
TMC.

10. Post-independence
developments
• in 1956 -- the reorganization of the states of India based on linguistic
demographics.
• Coorg (the birthplace of the Kaveri), became a part of Mysore state.
Huge parts of erstwhile Hyderabad State and Bombay Presidency
joined with Mysore state.
• Parts of Malabar which earlier formed part of Madras Presidency
went to Kerala.
• Kerala staked its claim as one of the major tributaries of the Kaveri,
the Kabini, now originated in Kerala.
• The Karaikal region of Puducherry at the tail end of the river
demanded the waters that it had always used for drinking and some
minimal agriculture.

11. The constitution of the tribunal
• A three-man tribunal was constituted
on 2 June 1990.
• The tribunal was headquartered at
NEW DELHI and was to be headed by
Justice Chittatosh Mookerjee.

12. The four states presented their
demands to the tribunal as under
• karnataka- claimed 465 TMC as its share
• kerala- claimed 99.8 TMC as its share
• pondicherry- claimed 9.3 TMC
• Tamil nadu - claimed the flows should be
ensured in accordance with the terms of the
agreements of 1892 and 1924
(ie., 566 TMC for Tamil Nadu and Puducherry; 177
TMC for Karnataka and 5 TMC for Kerala).

13. • On 20 February 2013, based on the directions of the
Supreme Court, the Indian Government notified the final
award of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) on
sharing the waters of the Cauvery system among the basin
States of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala and Union
territory of Puducherry.
• The final award makes an annual allocation of 419 TMC to
Tamil Nadu in the entire Cauvery basin, 270 TMC to
Karnataka, 30 TMC to Kerala and 7 TMC to Puducherry.

14. water sharing criteria
• is based on two situations:
• When water availability is above the
normal water year flows.
• When water availability is equal or below
the normal water year flows

15. Above normal water year
• Karnataka can use all the excess water
available in its area after releasing 192
TMC applicable in a normal water
year. Tamil Nadu can also use all the
excess water available in its area
(including flood water from
Karnataka if any)

16. Below normal water year
1. When the total water availability is below 740 TMC (i.e. distress
year), the allocated share of each state is reduced
proportionately.
2. Kerala (in Kabini basin) and Karnataka would use their
reduced allocations and release rest of water below
Billigundulu gauging station for use in Tamil Nadu and
Puducherry .
3. Karnataka has to release water to Tamil Nadu on
monthly basis proportionate to the monthly figures
indicated for a normal year.

17. Recent developments
• On 22 August 2016, Tamil Nadu approached
Supreme Court, seeking direction to Karnataka to
release 50.052 tmc ft Cauvery water from its
reservoirs for its third samba cultivation, as mandated
in the final order of the Cauvery Water Disputes
Tribunal 2007.
• Karnataka cited distress situation and declined to
release water.

18. • The Court also asked Karnataka to revert by 5
September 2016 as to how much water it can
release.
• On 5 September 2016 : Karnataka informed the
Supreme Court that it can release 10,000 cusecs
per day. while Tamil Nadu demanded 20,000 cscs
per day.
• Supreme Court ordered Karnataka to release
15,000 cusecs per day to Tamil Nadu for next 10
days till 16 September 2016.

19. • On 9 September 2016, the state of Karnataka
observed a bhandh and protested against the
release of water to Tamil Nadu.
• violence broke out in Bengaluru,
Mysuru, Mandya and other parts of
state.
• Two people were killed in the unrest
and section 144 was imposed in
Bangalore. Curfew was also imposed
on few parts of Bangalore

20. Karnataka Government took strong
stand on 23rd september that not to
release water -----
• Only for drinking purpose……not for
agriculture…..!!!
• “Karnataka doesn’t have water to drink,
why should we release water to tamil ladu
for agriculture………??????? ”

21. But on september 27th ………
• Again the supreme court asks the
state of karnataka to release water
to tamil nadu….!

22. Govt. calls multi-party meeting on
28,sep,2016
Decided not to release water
to tamil nadu….

23. Conclusion….
• Notable film actor UPENDRA, in his film
“H2O”, says “kaveri born from nature. It is
not someone’s property.”
• He wonderfully compares  portraits
kaveri issue to saiyami sisters; where one
girl wants to die and another wants to live!
• In short, he wanted to say that kaveri is
natural phenomenon and we should not
quarel in the name of the river.

24. • Subramaniam swamy
suggests - we can use sea
water by removing salt
from the it. It can be used
both for agriculture as well
as for drinking purpose.

26. Waiting for rain…..

27. Thank you