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What does a ‘River Board’ mean for India? | Explained
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The story so far: The Cauvery Water Management Authority (CWMA) chairperson Saumitra Kumar Haldar has called for the establishment of a river board that will “own, operate, manage, and regulate” reservoirs in the entire Cauvery basin to resolve the vexatious dispute between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka over the sharing of the water resource.
In essence, he favoured the idea of treating the Cauvery river as one unit and managing its resources accordingly, instead of going by political boundaries of territories through which the river flows.
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