Chennai, Dec 15: Asserting that Karnataka and Tamil Nadu were not India and Pakistan, its Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Friday evening said the row over the Mekedatu reservoir project across river Cauvery could be resolved only through talks and not legally.
Talking to reporters at the airport, Mr Kumaraswamy, who arrived here to call on 111-year-old Siddaganga seer Shivakumara Swami, who was airlifted from Bengaluru and admitted at the Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre here for further management of his liver and bile-duct infections, said the the proposed reservoir was only to save the surplus Cauvery water from being letting into the sea.
Stating that the Cauvery row between the two states has been on for 125 years, Mr Kumaramaswamy said''We want to construct the dam only to save the surplus water.
He also promised that not even a single drop of water, to be stored in Mekedatu, would be used for irrigation.
Observing that Karnataka has been placing the demand for the dam at Mekedatu for the last 30 years, he said because of the absence of a dam, the waters were being flowing into the sea.
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