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- The Cauvery Water Management Authority has ordered Karnataka to release 9.19 tmcft of water to Tamil Nadu from river Cauvery in June.
- This order has come after the representatives from Tamil Nadu placed a request in the meeting, to direct Karnataka to release water in time for the Kuruvai crops in the delta districts of Tamil Nadu.
- Since pre-independence years, the sharing of Cauvery water has been an area of contestation between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In 2018, the Supreme Court gave its final verdict on the Cauvery water dispute. The judgment was passed on a batch of appeals by the states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala challenging the 2007 award passed by the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal.
- Supreme Court curtailed Tamil Nadu’s share of Cauvery water and increased Karnataka’s share. According to the verdict, Karnataka should release 177.25 tmcft water from Billigundlu dam on Tamil Nadu-Karnataka border to Mettur dam on Cauvery every year to Tamil Nadu for the next 15 years.
- Following the verdict, the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) was put in place by the government of India in June 2018 to give effect to the decision of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal as modified by the Supreme Court.
- The Cauvery River originates in Karnataka’s Kodagu district, flows into Tamil Nadu, and reaches the Bay of Bengal at Poompuhar. Parts of three Indian states – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Karnataka – and the Union Territory of Puducherry lie in the Cauvery basin.




