The fight over Cauvery: ‘Jewel among maidens, the life force of civilisation’

Long, long ago, when time was a river, there lived a rishi called Kavera. He had a daughter named Lopamudra. She was married to the sage Agastya, who kept her in his kamandalu. Once when a famine stalked the land, Lord Brahma took the form of a crow and tipped the kamandalu. And out fell Kavera’s daughter — Kaveri — who took the form of a river to bring relief and prosperity. The Skanda Purana and Agni Purana tell the story a little
differently. In some tellings, Kavera is a king; and Lopamudra, a representation of Vishnu’s maya, has twin manifestations of a human and holy water. In all of them, Kaveri, or Cauvery, assumes the state of a river goddess with immense capacity to love and nurture. Not surprisingly, she is counted among the seven sacred rivers invoked in the nitya vandana sloka, Gange cha Yamune chaiva Godavari Saraswati/ Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidham kuru.



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Cauvery row: Security beefed up in Mysuru, Bengaluru for Supreme Court hearing today

BENGALURU/MYSURU: With the Supreme Court expected to take up the Cauvery water dispute+ case on Tuesday, Bengaluru city police have tightened security+ , with additional forces deployed at sensitive and hypersensitive areas.

City police commissioner NS Megharikh held a meeting with his officials, and discussed the measures taken to curb the violence and related issues. Later in the evening, Megharikh interacted with control room personnel and gave them directions.

"A total of 40 platoons of the Karnataka State Reserve Police, 30 City Armed Reserve platoons, six Rapid Action Force squads, three companies of the Seema Suraksha Dal, three Border Security Force platoons and one company each of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Indo-Tibetan Border Police will guard the city. Besides, 15,000 civil police including senior police officers and 2,000 Home Guards will take position at 6am. Two Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) vehicles, 250 Hoysalas and 400 Cheetah bikes will patrol the city," police sources said. City police were on the roads in full strength on Monday too, given that the Cauvery Supervisory Committee was to take up the issue of release of water to Tamil Nadu.



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Cauvery water dispute in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka: Like Rajinikanth, actors too feel the heat

On Friday, as Karnataka logs out for a state-wide bandh over the Cauvery issue, the 52 Tamil satellite channels will be off air in Kannadiga land. Like it was in 2008, when cable TV operators pulled the plug on Tamil entertainment networks for days at end.

Tamil movies have already been removed from theatres in cities like Bengaluru and on Thursday, Tamil actor Vikram's Iru Mugan did not release across the Cauvery. Films have always suffered collateral damage whenever Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have gone to war over Cauvery.

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Cauvery water war: When did the dispute start and where are we now?

The Cauvery dispute started in the year 1892, between the Madras Presidency (under the British Raj) and the Princely state of Mysore when they had to come to terms with dividing the river water between the two states.

Since that day, Cauvery water has been a bone of contention between the two states. In the year 1910, both states started planning the construction of dams on the river. The issue was presided upon by the British who also decided which state would receive what share of the water. In 1924, an agreement was signed between the two states where the rules of regulation of the Krishnarajsagar dam were pointed out. In a report published by The Times of India, senior counsel AK Ganguly pointed out that the clause 11 of the agreement provided " for such modifications and additions as may be mutually agreed upon as the result of reconsideration'' after a passage of five decades, this revision clause was only applicable to projects other than KRS. The core of the agreement was the conditions governing the construction and operation of KRS and that could not be subject to any review. Hence the 1924 agreement gave both — the Madras presidency and the Mysore state — rights to use the surplus waters of the Cauvery.

Madras had objected to the construction of the Krishnasagar dam and hence the agreement gave them the liberty to build the Mettur dam. However the agreement also put restrictions on the extent of area irrigated by Madras and Mysore using the river water.



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Cauvery water dispute: When did it start and where are we now?

The Cauvery dispute started in the year 1892, between the Madras Presidency (under the British Raj) and the Princely state of Mysore when they had to come to terms with dividing the river water between the two states.

Since that day, Cauvery water has been a bone of contention between the two states. In the year 1910, both states started planning the construction of dams on the river. The issue was presided upon by the British who also decided which state would receive what share of the water. In 1924, an agreement was signed between the two states where the rules of regulation of the Krishnarajsagar dam were pointed out. In a report published by The Times of India, senior counsel AK Ganguly pointed out that the clause 11 of the agreement provided " for such modifications and additions as may be mutually agreed upon as the result of reconsideration'' after a passage of five decades, this revision clause was only applicable to projects other than KRS. The core of the agreement was the conditions governing the construction and operation of KRS and that could not be subject to any review. Hence the 1924 agreement gave both — the Madras presidency and the Mysore state — rights to use the surplus waters of the Cauvery.

Madras had objected to the construction of the Krishnasagar dam and hence the agreement gave them the liberty to build the Mettur dam. However the agreement also put restrictions on the extent of area irrigated by Madras and Mysore using the river water.

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Cauvery agitation: Siddaramaiah calls for all-party meeting today

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Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has convened an all-party meeting  in the state on Tuesday evening to decide the government’s course of action in the wake of the Supreme Court directing Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water over the next 10 days from Cauvery to Tamil Nadu.

The Supreme Court’s orders came in the wake of a plea by Tamil Nadu government against Karnataka’s alleged violation of orders of the Cauvery River Water Disputes Tribunal for release of water for agriculture in the Cauvery basin in Tamil Nadu.

Karnataka has been arguing that it does not have sufficient water in its reservoirs in the Cauvery basin to service the agricultural requirements of both Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on account of insufficient rainfall during the monsoon.


The state has claimed it has only 51 TMC of water in its reservoirs in the Cauvery basin which can service only the drinking water needs of south Karnataka.

Siddaramaiah is holding consultations with legal experts and opposition parties on Tuesday even as a bandh has been organised by farmers and pro-Karnataka organisations in the Mandya region of the state where the agricultural and drinking water requirements are met by the Cauvery river.

“We are yet to receive a copy of the Supreme Court order. Once we examine it we will consult all parties and take a decision,” Siddaramaiah said on Monday.

The head of the Cauvery water agitation group in Karnataka the veteran G Madegowda has threatened serious consequences if the Congress government releases water at the cost of farmers in the Mandya region. Madegowda has demanded the removal of the head of Karnataka’s legal panel in the Supreme Court, Fali S Nariman, for failing to effectively present the case of the state.

With the emotive Cauvery issue resulting in violence and farmer suicides in the past, the state government has deployed additional police forces in the Mandya region – especially on the Bengaluru-Mysore highway and at the Krishna Raja Sagar reservoir near Mysore.

The Mandya district collector has banned tourist activity at the Brindavan Gardens next to the KRS reservoir for four days till September 9 on account of the Cauvery agitation.

The state transport corporation cancelled bus services going via Mandya on the Bengaluru-Mysore route on Tuesday.


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