New Delhi, June 06: With harsh summer months ahead and predictions of less rainfall, the Cauvery river waters row is once again likely to come centre stage during today’s Cauvery Monitoring Committee (CMC) meeting to discuss the sharing of water between the basin states. The meeting would be chaired by Union water resources secretary A K Goswami and attended by chief secretaries and senior officials of four riparian states -- Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry. The meeting is likely to discuss, among other things, inflow into Mettur reservoir in Tamil Nadu and storage in the four reservoirs in Karnataka. The CMC oversees implementation of the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal's order on release of water.
Sources in the water resources ministry said that there might be a possibility of a meeting of Cauvery River Authority (CRA), headed by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in July. Bureau Report