COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: LET THE WATER FLOW!

COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: LET THE WATER FLOW!:


Kaveri river dispute in India is not at all a new agenda. But what is actually surprising is the age of this dispute. Decades have passed, but this one dispute is still as fresh as its inception. The refusal to drop the claims of Kaveri water by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu has been major bumps on the road in a long standing stand-off that is yet to be resolved. The infighting revolves round the contention of Karnataka’s demand for more water, as they feel they are deprived of its due share, and Tamil Nadu’s counter claim that 3,00,000 acres depend directly on Kaveri’s water and millions of farmers will lose their livelihood if their allotted share is diverted. In a similar sign of locked horns, Punjab and Haryana are entangled in conflict of sharing the waters of Ravi and Beas. Both are agrarian states and depend on irrigation for their agricultural produce.

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