GOVERNMENT 0F INDIA KRISHNA WATER DISPUTES TRlBUNAL THE REPORT OF THE KRISHNA WATER DISPUTES TRIBUNAL WITH THE DECISION VOLUME III NEW DELHI 1973 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA KRISHNA WATER DISPUTES TRIBUNAL THE REPORT OF THE KRISHNA WATER DISPUTES TRIBUNAL WITH THE DECISION IN THE MATTER OF WATER DISPUTES REGARDING THE INTER-STATE RIVER KRISHNA AND THE RIVER VALLEY THEREOF BETWEEN 1. THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA. 2. THE STATE OF KARNATAKA. 3. THE STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH. 4. THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Parties to the dispute 5. THE STATE OF ORISSA. until 19th April, 1971. VOLUME III NEW DELHI 1973 3 I&P/73—1. CON-TENTS A P PEN D I C E S Pages APPENDIX– A .. Conversion Table (Exhibit APK-694) 235 APPENDIX – B.. Abbreviations" 236 APPENDIX – C.. Agreement of 1892 between Madras and Mysore so far as it related to the Krishna river system. 237 (Exhibit APK-58) APPENDIX – D.. Agreement of 1933 between Madras and Mysore so far as it related to the Krishna river system 248 (Exhibit APK – 59) APPENDIX – E.. Agreement of June 1944 between Madras and Hyderabad. (Exhibit APK – 60) 250 APPENDIX – F.. Agreement of July 1944 between Madras and Mysore in so far as it related to the Krishana river 252 system. (Exhibit APK-61) APPENDIX – G.. Supplemental Agreement of December 1945 among Madras, Mysore and Hyderabad. 256 (Exhibit APK-109) APPENDIX – H.. Supplemental Agrreement of 1946 among Madras, Mysore and Hyderabad (Exhibit APK – 346) 257 APPENDIX – I.. Agreed statement regarding catchment areas at different points in Krishna basin 260 (Exhibit APK-284) APPENDIX – J.. Agreed statement dated 1 st April, 1971 regarding underground water resources. (Annexure “A” to 262 Tribunal’s order dated 1 st April, 1971) APPENDIX – K.. Agreed statement dated 20 th September, 1972 regarding underground water resources. 263 (Exhibit MRK-236) APPENDIX – L.. Agreed statement dated 20 th August, 1973 regarding domestic and municipal water supply and 264 industrial use. (Exhibit MRK-346) APPENDIX – M.. Agreed statement datd 2 nd September, 1971 regardign protection to irrigation works in their 265 respective territories in Vedavathi Sub-basin. (Exhibit MYK-293) APPENDIX – N.. Agreed statement dated 20 th August, 1973 regarding gaugings and gauging sites in the Krishna 268 river system (Exhibit MRK – 347) APPENDIX – O.. Annual flow series at Vijayawada from 1894-95 to 1971-72 filed by the State of Maharashtra 270 (Exhibit MRK-342) APPENDIX – P.. Annual flow series at Vijayawada from 1894-95 to 1971-72 filed by the State of Mysore 274 (Exhibit MYK-303) APPENDIX – Q.. Annual flow series at Vijayawada from 1894-95 to 1971-72 filed by the State of Andhra Pradesh. 278 (Exhibit APK-696) APPENDIX – R.. Common draft of Part II prepared by Counsel for the State of Maharashtra, Mysore and 282 Andhra Pradesh on 26-07-4973. APPENDIX – S.. Agreed data regarding forests, minerals, industries and communications in the Krishna basin and a 286 brief description of the population, topography, etc, of the States of Maharashtra, Mysore and Andhra Pradesh APPENDIX – T.. Particulars of visitors by the Krishna Water Disputes Tribunal to various projects, sites works in 290 the Krishna basin in the states of Maharashtra, Mysore and Andhra Pradesh. APPENDIX – U.. Orders of the Tribunal dated the 19 th April, 1971 and the 27th July, 1971. 293 APPENDIX A C O N V E R S I ON T A B L E Derived from tables given in Indian Standard conversion factors and conversion tables IS ; 786-1967 (pp. 29, 44, 45, 52, 54, 56 & 57) All figures are corrected to four places of decimal. 1. Linear 1 Gallon = 4.5461 litres 1 inch = 25.40 millimetres 1 million gallons = 160,544 cubic feet = 4,546.09 cubic metres 1 foot = 12 inches = 304.80 millimetres 1 cubic metre = 35.3147 cubic feet = 219.969 gallons 1 mile = 5,280 feet = 1000 litres = 1,609.344 metres = 1.6093 Kilometres. 1 million cubic metres = 35.3147 million cubic feet = 810.71 acre -feet 100 millimetres = 3.9370 inches 1 milliard cubic metres = 0.8107 M.A.F. 1 metre = 3.2808 feet = 1.0936 yards 1 cubic metre per second = 0.0864 million cubic metre for 1 day = 70.0453 acre-feet 1 kilometre = 0.6214 mile = 3.0512 M. Cft. 2. Area 4. Rates of Flow 1 acre = 4840 square yards 1 cubic feet per second = 1.9835 acre feet per day = 0.4047 hectare = 0.028317 cubic metre per second 1 square mile = 640 acres = 28.3168 litres per second = 258.999 hectares = 6.2288 gallons per second = 22,423.68 gallons per hour = 0.5382 million gallons per day 1 hectare 100 = 2.4711 acres hectares = 247.105 acres 1 million gallons per day = 1.8581 cusecs = 0.3861 square mile = 0.0526 cubic metres per second 3. Volume 1 cubic foot — 0.0283 cubic metre 1 cubic metre per second = 35.3147 cusecs = 6.2288 gallons = 219.969 gallons per second 1 million cubic feet = 11.5741 cusec-days 1 milliard cubic metre per = 0.4087 million cusecs = 22.9568 acre-feet day = 0.8107 million acre-feet per day = 28316.8 cubic metres = 6.2288 million gallons 1 litre per second = 0.03531 cusecs One thousand million cubic = 28.3 168 million cubic metres = 791.8892 gallons per hour feet = 22956.84 acre-feet = 6228.8 million gallons Milliard = 1,000 million = 1,000,000,000 1 million acre-feet = 43.5600 T.M.C. Sd/- Sd/- Sd/- = 1.2335 milliard cubic metres E.G. Saldahna S.G. Balekundry M. Sitarama Sastri 1 cusec-day = 0.0864 million cubic feet = 1.9835 acre-feet 30-4-73 30-4-73 30-4-73 = 2446.5715 cubic metres = 0.5382 million gallons (Maharashtra) (Mysore) (Andhra Pradesh) 235 APPENDIX B A B B R E V I A T I O N S (I) Technical terms I.M.C. thousand million cubic feet (3) Certain volumes containing records of the Krishna case have been of water. cited in an abbreviated form thus M. Cft. million cubic feet MRK . Volume containing the plea- Cft. cubic feet dings filed in the Krishna case by the State of Maha- ft. f oot or feet rashtra. in. inch APK . Volume containing the plea- L.F. load factor dings filed in the Krishna MkWh . million kilowatt hour case by the State of Andhra KW . kilowatt Pradesh. MW . megawatt MYK . Volume containing the plea- kV . kilo volt dings filed in the Krishna case by the State of Mysore. C0 . centigrade temperature 0 . Fahrenheit temperature MPK Volume containing the plea- F dings filed in the Krishna hr. hour case by the State of Madhya lat. latitude Pradesh. long. longitude . minimum ORK Volume containing the plea- M.D.D.L. draw -down level dings filed in the Krishna M.D.S.S. Madras Detailed Standard case by the State of Orissa. Specifications MRDK Volume containing relevant R.L. reduced level documents filed in the F.R.L. full reservoir level Krishna case by the State of Maharashtra. mm . millimetre APDK Volume containing relevant km . kilometre documents filed in the U/S . upstream Krishna case by the State of Andhra Pradesh. (2) Other terms MYDK Volume containing relevant AP . Andhra Pradesh documents filed in the MR . Maharashtra Krishna case by the State of MY . Mysore Mysore. K . Krishna MRPK Volume containing Projects Reports or Notes filed in the G . Godavari Krishna case by the State of K-l to K-12 . sub-basins of Krishna basin Maharashtra. R.B.H.L.C. Right Bank High Level APPK Volume containing Project R.B.L.L.C. Right Bank Low Level Canal Reports or Notes filed in the K..C. Canal . Kurnool-Cuddapah Canal Krishna case by the State of Andhra Pradesh. T.B. Tungabhadra C.W. & P.C. Central Water and Power MYPK Volume containing Project Commission. Reports or Notes filed in the Krishna case by the State of C.W.& P.R. S. Central Water and Power Mysore. Research Station. CWPC(K) . Volume containing relevant pp. pages documents obtained in the Krishna case from the Ann. Annexure Central Water and Power N . National Commission. MIP(K) Volume containing relevant Ld. Edition documents obtained in the Art. Article Krishna case from the Ministry of Irrigation and U.N. United Nations Power. U.S.A. United States of America SP . Volume containing Supple- mental Pleadings. COPP . Committee on Plan Projects PC(K) Volume containing relevant K.G.C.R. Krishna Godavari Commission documents obtained in the Reports Krishna case from the Planning Commission. 236 APPENDIX C Agreement of 1892 between Madras and Mysore GOVERNMENT OF MADRAS 2. Colonel Sir Oliver St. John informed the Diwan in April last that the Government of India would pre- (Public Works Department) fer the matter to be settled, if possible, by some un- IRRIGATION derstanding between Madras and Mysore, and, before leaving Ootacamund, this year he, arranged for a con- G. O. No. 162, 1 18th Feb. 1892 Irrigation ference between officers of the two Governments. works—Mysore State—Restoration and Under such circumstances the Darbar again made en- deavours, in conference with the Madras Government, Construction—certain rules and schedules. Read the to arrive at an amicable understanding regarding our following paper:— future irrigation operations, so that controversy might be obviated in regard of individual works and a sphere From General Sir H.N.D. PRENDERGAST, R.E., of operations, declared in Mysore projects should be KCB V.C., Officiating Resident in Mysore to the Chief absolutely untrammelled. At the same time restric Secretary to Government, dated Bangalore, the 15th tions to be accepted by the Darbar on certain classes January 1892, No.