For decades Karnataka has lost the fight to Tamil Nadu in the Cauvery water case The Karnataka government has deprived Mandya and Bangalore of drinking water this year It's time to change the incompetent lawyers who've consistently lost the battle and charged the government crores
The state government has deprived its own cities, Mandya and Bangalore of drinking water and ordered its farmers not to grow crops that consume too much water and instead allowed water to flow towards Tamil Nadu so they can irrigate their crops. Where is the justice in that?
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Here are the 7 questions a Kannadiga would like the government to answer:
- On what basis did the Karnataka government agree to provide 10,000 cusecs of water every day?
- Since the Cauvery Supervisory Committee (CSC) is the deciding body, what was the need for the Karnataka government to agree to the Supreme Court’s order?
- Was it not possible for the Karnataka Government to convince the SC that it had only collected enough drinking water for its citizens?
- Tamil Nadu had asked for 20,000 cusecs of water per day for irrigation of its Samba crop but that proportion of water is not available in all the three of Karnataka’s reservoirs (KRS, Kabini and Harangi dams). Why did the government not stress on this point in its argument with the Supreme court when there isn’t even sufficient drinking water for Karnataka.
- Why did the government’s lawyers not demand that an expert be appointed to adjudge the water scarcity in Karnataka before the decree was passed?
- By the end of August, Tamil Nadu’s Mettur Dam had enough water (37.17 TMC), on what basis then did the Tamil Nadu government demand an additional 12 TMC of water and why was this point not raised?
- Is it not time to change the team of lawyers representing the state after failing in every trial?
