About Mekedatu Reservoir Project:
- The Mekedatu multi-purpose (drinking and power) project involves building a balancing reservoir near Kanakapura in Ramanagara district of Karnataka.
- It is 4 km from the Tamil Nadu border and 100 km from Bengaluru.
- The estimated Rs 9,000-crore project, once completed, is aimed at ensuring drinking water to Bengaluru and neighbouring areas (4.75 TMC) and it can also generate 400 MW of power.
- Named after the village where the project is expected to be constructed, the reservoir will have a capacity of 284,000 million cubic feet (TMC).
- The project is proposed at the confluence of Cauvery with its tributary Arkavathi.
- Issue:
- Tamil Nadu — the lower riparian state — has claimed that the project is against the interest of the state’s water requirement.
- The lower riparian state has to give its no-objection for any project that comes up on the Cauvery as per the Cauvery tribunal and Supreme Court order