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Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal final award

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Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal final award
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The Cauvery tribunal issued its final award allocating river water among Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry.

The Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal, set up in 1990, delivered its final award on 5 February 2007. It allocated 419 thousand million cubic feet of water to Tamil Nadu, the largest share, with Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry receiving the rest. Both Tamil Nadu and Karnataka challenged the award in the Supreme Court. It was notified in 2013, and the Supreme Court modified it in 2018.

Related events

  1. 1892

    1. 1892KaveriAgriculture

      Madras and Mysore sign the 1892 Cauvery agreement

      After an 1890 conference, the Madras Presidency and Mysore signed an agreement on the use of the Cauvery's waters.

  2. 1914

    1. 12 May 1914KaveriAgriculture

      Cauvery arbitration award on the Kannambadi dam

      Arbitration under the 1892 agreement let Mysore build a Kannambadi dam smaller than it had planned; an appeal by Madras led to the 1924 agreement.

  3. 1974

    1. 1974KaveriAgriculture

      Expiry of the 1924 Kaveri agreement

      The 50-year Madras-Mysore agreement of 1924 on Kaveri waters expired, opening a long inter-state dispute with Karnataka.

  4. 1990

    1. 2 Jun 1990New DelhiAgriculture

      Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal constituted

      On a Supreme Court direction, the Union government set up a tribunal to adjudicate the Kaveri water dispute between Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Puducherry.

  5. 1998

    1. 1998New DelhiGovernance

      Cauvery River Authority set up

      The Union government set up the Cauvery River Authority, chaired by the Prime Minister with the chief ministers of the basin states, to implement the interim award.

  6. 2008

    1. 26 Feb 2008 to 29 May 2013Hogenakkal FallsInfrastructure

      Hogenakkal Integrated Drinking Water Project

      A Cauvery-based drinking water scheme for Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts was begun in 2008 amid objections from Karnataka and launched in 2013.

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