The Karnataka state government announced on Tuesday evening that it will file an urgent special leave petition before the Supreme Court challenging the Cauvery Water Management Authority’s directive to release six thousand cusecs of water daily to Tamil Nadu.
Following an all-party strategy consultation convened by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar in Bengaluru, the state cabinet resolved to challenge the regulatory mandate before the highest judicial forum. State legal counsel were instructed to draft the emergency petition highlighting acute drinking water deficits confronting metropolitan Bengaluru and surrounding urban centers.
Shivakumar, who also holds the water resources portfolio, stated that erratic rainfall during the late monsoon has severely curtailed reservoir replenishments throughout the southern river basin. He emphasized that the state does not possess sufficient water reserves to fulfill irrigation releases without endangering essential drinking water supplies for millions of urban residents over the impending summer months.
The upcoming judicial confrontation marks another high-stakes chapter in the decades-long inter-state river water dispute. Legal teams representing Tamil Nadu have simultaneously filed caveats in the Supreme Court to ensure the downstream state is heard before any interim stay is granted.
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