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2023 Kaveri water sharing protests Part of the Kaveri River water dispute Cauvery river flows into Karnataka state and then into the Tamil Nadu state Date August 2023 (1 year ago) (2023-08) Location Karnataka, India Caused by Karnataka's refusal to release more Cauvery water amid drought Goals Stop releasing more water to Tamil Nadu Methods Gherao (encirclement), dharna (sit-in), raasta roko ...
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-liter (5-gallon) buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores.
The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal announced its final verdict on 5 February 2007. [20] According to its verdict, Tamil Nadu gets 419 TMC of Cauvery water while Karnataka gets 270 TMC. The actual release of water by Karnataka to Tamil Nadu is to be 192 TMC annually. Further, Kerala will get 30 TMC and Puducherry 7 TMC. [42]
To further address water supply issues, BWSSB has studied the rainwater harvesting (RWH) techniques used in Chennai, where such methods have greatly reduced water shortage issues. RWH methods are becoming mandatory in Bangalore. [5] In addition, in April 2007, BWSSB issued a moratorium on new building hookups to the water system. [8]
Heavy traffic, water shortages, and rising property prices have led to online speculation that Bengaluru may be crumbling and debates about whether another city will emerge as a new tech hub in India.
The French water company Veolia won a management contract in three cities in Karnataka in 2005. [61] [62] In 2002 a consortium including Thames Water won a pilot contract covering 40,000 households to reduce non-revenue water in parts of Bangalore, funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. The contract was scaled up in 2004. [63]
Insufficient water has the capacity to deteriorate the health of an entire city in times of a water crisis. In the city of Latur , the depletion of more than 90% of water sources resulted in a major health crisis and people were forced to dig borewells into the ground, exposing themselves to dangerous chemicals and risking contamination.
The farmers also demanded to establish the Cauvery Management Board to solve the water crisis. On 7 April, the DMK chief M.K Stalin led the protests from Trichi to recover the Cauvery water sharing rights from Karnataka. [17] On 11 April, the PMK followed and proceeded a rail strike and harthal from morning to evening. [18]