Bengaluru/New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a plea filed by the Karnataka government on Cauvery water release to January 4. Karnataka will have to continue releasing 2,000 cusecs of water to Tamil Nadu per day till January 4.
The State government had filed a plea in the SC and informed about its inability to release 2,000 cusecs of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu. The SC adjourned the plea and asked Karnataka to maintain status quo till then and continue to supply 2,000 cusecs.
Citing reason that the cumulative water storage in all its four reservoirs of the Cauvery basin stood at just 15.92 tmcft as on December 11, the State government had moved an application in the SC. It had also stated that the present storage level was not even adequate enough to meet its own drinking water requirements.
A court-appointed Supervisory Committee has submitted its report on the ground situation in the basin region in both the states, which have locked horns over water release in recent months, escalating tension over the more than century-old dispute.
Earlier in October this year, Karnataka government said it would stick to the Supreme Court direction to the state to release 2,000 cusecs of water per day to Tamil Nadu till further orders.
