Who’s water will it be???

Its nice to see the Tamil Nadu govt. coming up with the master plan to interlink 3 main rivers of the Deccan India – Godavari, Krishna, Cauvery. The whole idea behind as far as I can understand is transferring the excess floodwaters to dry and scarce areas. The National Dept. relating to agriculture recently conducted a study of the feasibility of the project and came out with positive results.

The South Indian River Basin

Now one question that comes to my mind is that “how much will the people of Karnataka and Andhra benefit”??? Its so because when they finish this project the river waters are going to run into the Bay of Bengal thro Cauvery. The people of the other 2 states have the benefit of the rivers originating in their states, but with water let to go freely, how much will they benefit in comparison to the current scenario???

Another complication that will arise in the near future will be construction of dams due to the request of the farmers of the respective states. So how would the states react if one is built??? – one question that alludes everyone. The dispute for the Cauvery River is well known and it has drawn shame to both Karnataka and T.N.

The money that the govt. is going to incur is crores and lots of em. Alternative measures can be taken like building a de-salination plant along various locations to cater to the immediate needs of the people. So at the outset, the T.N. govt. would have to go in for more scrutiny in the situation that might arise in the latter stages than looking at solving the current problem.

Was anyone speaking about linking the Ganges to Cauvery??? I Guess I heard something.