Avoidable Water Wars
For decades now one state or another in India has been fighting with its neighbor over unfair or inadequate share of water from rivers that flow through more than one state as most rivers do.
Lots of figures are bandied about but few do the math!!
Water storage in storage dams is usually measured in TMC or Thousand Million Cubic Feet.
Flow of water on the other hand is measured in CUSECS or Cubic feet per second.
According to one website (https://www.quora.com/How-many-cusecs-does-1-TMC-equal)
1 TMC is roughly equal to 11,000 CUSECs for a day
1TMC is also equal to 28,316,846,592 liters. 2.83168466×107cubic metres.
1 CUSEC is equal to 28.317 ltrs/second
According to a report in Indian Express of 12 September 2016 the total amount of water in all Cauvery dams was 57 TMC which on 03 October 2016 may be little less.
As per the latest order of the Supreme Court Karnataka is required to release 6,000 CUSECS of water for six days to Tamil Nadu. If released it will roughly amount to 36,000 CUSECS or about 3.2 TMC out of an estimated 57 TMC.
The Karnataka CM has further said that if it releases 6,000 CUSECS of water for drinking purposes at least 3,000 CUSECS would reach Tamil Nadu.
The problem is then not totally insurmountable, is it?
Please correct me if I am wrong in my calculations.
For decades now one state or another in India has been fighting with its neighbor over unfair or inadequate share of water from rivers that flow through more than one state as most rivers do.
Lots of figures are bandied about but few do the math!!
Water storage in storage dams is usually measured in TMC or Thousand Million Cubic Feet.
Flow of water on the other hand is measured in CUSECS or Cubic feet per second.
According to one website (https://www.quora.com/How-many-cusecs-does-1-TMC-equal)
1 TMC is roughly equal to 11,000 CUSECs for a day
1TMC is also equal to 28,316,846,592 liters. 2.83168466×107cubic metres.
1 CUSEC is equal to 28.317 ltrs/second
According to a report in Indian Express of 12 September 2016 the total amount of water in all Cauvery dams was 57 TMC which on 03 October 2016 may be little less.
As per the latest order of the Supreme Court Karnataka is required to release 6,000 CUSECS of water for six days to Tamil Nadu. If released it will roughly amount to 36,000 CUSECS or about 3.2 TMC out of an estimated 57 TMC.
The Karnataka CM has further said that if it releases 6,000 CUSECS of water for drinking purposes at least 3,000 CUSECS would reach Tamil Nadu.
The problem is then not totally insurmountable, is it?
Please correct me if I am wrong in my calculations.
