Centre notifies Cauvery Water Management Authority

Centre notifies Cauvery Water Management Authority

News:

1. The central government has issued a notification for the Cauvery Water Management Authority following Supreme Court order.

Important Facts:

2. About Cauvery management control authority.

• The chairman of the authority will be appointed by the Central government. He/She must be of the rank of secretary or additional secretary or an eminent engineer.
• Tenure of chairman is five years.
• Two part-time members nominated by the Central Government
• Four part-time members  nominated by the party State governments and Union territory administration respectively.

3. The authority will decide the sharing of the river water between Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
4. The authority is directed for the following mandate:

• To monitor the storage of water
• Apportion of shares
• Supervise operation of the reservoirs
• Regulate water releases with the assistance of the Regulation Committee.
• The CWMA will also determine the total residual storage in the specified reservoirs on June 1 every year.

6. water share of each state will be determined on the basis of water flows together with the available carry-over storage in the reservoirs
7. The authority can seek the help of the Central Government for implementation of the Award of the Tribunal if any of states do not cooperate with the Cauvery authority.