Mekedatu project would impound free flow of Cauvery into Tamil Nadu: MK Stalin to Karnataka CM
India Today
Urging his Karnataka counterpart BS Yediyurappa not to pursue the Mekedatu Balancing Reservoir project, Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin on Sunday said it would impound and divert the free flow of the Cauvery river into the state.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Sunday urged his Karnataka counterpart BS Yediyurappa not to pursue the Mekedatu project as it would 'would impound and divert the first component of uncontrolled flows of the Cauvery river into Tamil Nadu'. "The proposed Mekedatu project would impound and divert the first component of uncontrolled flows due to Tamil Nadu, which is the flows coming into the river Cauvery from the uncontrolled catchment of Kabini sub-basin downstream of Kabini reservoir, the catchment of the mainstream of Cauvery river below Krishnarajasahara, uncontrolled flows from Simsha, Arkavathy and Suvernavathy sub-basins and various other small streams," Stalin wrote in a letter to Yediyurappa.
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