Bengaluru: Over ten days after the Supreme Court verdict on the vexed Cauvery dispute, JD(S) patriarch H.D. Deve Gowda yesterday said mere allocation of excess water was not good news for Karnataka as it could neither be diverted beyond the basin nor utilised for crops.
He told the media here that though Bengaluru was not identified as part of the Cauvery basin, the State government has commenced announcement of packages to parched areas. He questioned: “We should have got 40 tmcft water, but we got only 14 tmcft of additional allocation. What is there to celebrate by distributing sweets?”
