Jaya Thakur
Jaya Thakur
River basin governance: Learnings from Cauvery conflict
Posted on 15 Feb, 2019 01:38 PMThe river Cauvery—an inter-state river shared by the southern states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, as well as the Union Territory of Pondicherry—has often been in the news for the fight over its waters between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. What dominates the issue is the conflicting demands for irrigation from the plateau region of Karnataka and the delta region in Tamil Nadu.