The Mettur dam’s water storage stood at 32.830 tmcft, which is 35.12% of the full reservoir capacity of 93.47 tmcft, while the inflow was 1,043 cusecs at 4 pm on Tuesday.
The water year is recorded from June 1 and Tamil Nadu had already seen a severe shortfall of its share as dictated under the SC-modified water-sharing schedule
A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta was hearing the TN government’s appeal seeking directions to Karnataka for promptly releasing its due share of water.
On Monday, TN’s counsel senior advocate CS Vaidyanathan told the apex court that Karnataka was releasing water for irrigation within the state but it was not reaching TN.
