Goa plea against Mahadayi dams misleading: Karnataka

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Goa plea against Mahadayi dams misleading: Karnataka

Context

Terming the Goa submission challenging Karnataka’s trans-basin diversion of Mahadayi waters into the Malaprabha reservoir as “misleading and contradictory”, State Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil said water has been shared with Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra from the Krishna basin by the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal (KWDT) in the past.

No diversion

Plea against allowing the diversion of the Mahadayi river water by the governments of Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Earlier

KWDT has allocated 98.2 tmcft water to the Koyna dam in Maharashtra for generation of power and 25 tmcft for the Telugu-Ganga project (under KWDT-II).

Mahadayi basin

About 200 tmcft water is available in Mahadayi basin, according to a 2003 Central Water Commission report. Unfortunately, Goa uses only around 10 tmcft while the remaining goes into the sea

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