The state has to transfer the Cauvery water from KRS reservoir to Tamil Nadu. The Supreme Court’s judgment Karnataka has to discharge 34 tmfct of water to the beside states. However, “very poor storage” in the reservoir, the State is discharging the water. On Friday water level is 355 cusecs, but it is now 2,453 cusecs, the sources said.
The water level in KRS stood at 90.53 ft as against the full reservoir level of 124.8 ft. The level on the same day in 2018 was 124.1 ft.