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Water yet to reach Mettur

By A.V.Ragunathan

SALEM, FEB. 11.Despite the claim that Karnataka has started releasing over 4,500 cusecs of water from the Kabini reservoir from February 7, the stated quantum is yet to be realised in the Mettur dam, where the inflow this evening was 845 cusecs. It would normally take three days for water to reach the reservoir, a distance of about 250 km. But even after five days, the inflow is not encouraging.

Unless the inflow picks up substantially, there could be furtherdelay in water reaching delta districts.

Seepage loss

Two reasons are attributed to the poor inflow: the quantum is less and due to a break in the flow, seepage loss is significant. According to information reaching here, Karnataka started releasing 3,210 cusecs a day and stepped it up to 4,400 and 5,000 cusecs in the subsequent days.

As the volume is less, the flow could not acquire momentum to reach the destination within the expected time.

There is also the fear that the Karnataka Government, in anticipation of the Cauvery River Authority meeting, could have discontinued the supply on Monday, slowing down the flow further.

As per the Cauvery Disputes Tribunal award, Karnataka should have released 196.965 tmcft till today, but the inflow into Mettur was only 89.339 tmcft, leaving a shortfall of 107.626 tmcft.

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