The story so far: On November 18, the Karnataka government decided that it would submit a “revised” Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Centre on the Mekedatu balancing reservoir across the inter-State river Cauvery. Five days earlier, the Supreme Court termed as “premature” the application of Tamil Nadu challenging the project proposed by Karnataka. With this development, the decks have been cleared for the Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) and the Central Water Commission (CWC) to examine the upper riparian State’s proposal.

How has Tamil Nadu reacted?

While the Opposition in Tamil Nadu has blamed the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government for the top Court’s ruling, the lower riparian State’s Water Resources Minister Durai Murugan rebutted reports of the Court having permitt

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