The Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) ordered Karnataka to continue releasing 5,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu for another 15 days. But according to the Karnataka officials, there was “no water” available to release.
Mysore was allowed to build a dam at Kannambadi village to store 44.8 thousand million cubic feet of water. This agreement was to be valid upto 50 years following a review. However, both the states took the dispute to the Supreme Court after Independence several times, but to no avail.
Both, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have been at each other’s throats for sharing Cauvery river’s water since the British era. A resolution was acquired when the Mysore princely state and the Madras presidency arrived at a consensus in 1924.
The CWDT : The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) was constituted by the government in 1990 to resolve the water disputes between the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry. The CWDT passed an interim order to Karnataka for releasing 205 million cubic feet of water to Tamil Nadu–monthly or weekly.