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The tribunal gave an interim award on 25 June 1991 that was based on its 10-year calculation of average inflow of water into Tamil Nadu. [17] It instructed Karnataka to release water from its reservoirs and provide 205 TMC to the Mettur reservoir in Tamil Nadu in a water year and also specified weekly and monthly stipulations. [18]
The 2018 Kaveri River water sharing protests are a series of ongoing protests on the issue of water sharing problems from the River Kaveri between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka which are two states in India. The Kaveri water dispute has been a major controversial issue between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the years and the issue has been raised ...
On 25 June 1991, the Kaveri Water Tribunal, constituted in 1990, directed the Karnataka state government to release 205 billion ft 3 (5.8 km 3) of water to Tamil Nadu within a year. Karnataka issued an ordinance to annul the tribunal's award but this was struck down by the Supreme Court of India.
the right to water; [127] the right to earn a livelihood, the right to health, and; the right to education. [128] At the conclusion of his book, Making of India's Constitution, retired Supreme Court Justice Hans Raj Khanna wrote:
The first section of the book, which deals with the right to water, is full of water-based imagery—when the young Ambedkar is thirsty, his torso turns into a fish; and when he urges a crowd to stand up for their rights, the speakers morph into showers sprinkling water onto the audience.
A human right to water "generally rests on two justifications: the non-substitutability of drinking water ('essential for life'), and the fact that many other human rights which are explicitly recognized in the UN Conventions are predicated upon an (assumed) availability of water (e.g. the right to food)."
Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate The World Bank, 2010, Case Study on water resources in Andhra Pradesh, India. pgs. 73–77. Comprehensive Portal on Water in India: India Water Portal; Solution Exchange:Water Community in India; Water and Environmental Sanitation Network India:WES-Net India Archived 15 February 2021 at the Wayback ...
The Department of Water Resources is one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu. The department was split from the Public works department in June 2021 and is responsible for the management and conservation of water bodies in the state.