
Karnataka’s plan for diverting Mahadayi river water won’t have much impact on Goa: NIO hydrologists
In a new paper published in the Journal of Earth System Sciences, the researchers — K Anilkumar, D Shankar and K Suprit — simulated the water budget of the Mahadayi river using a more accurate rainfall mapping and rainfall run-off model which made “two key improvements compared to the data arrived at by the tribunal” to allow them to simulate the discharge at any point along the Mahadayi. According to the simulation, while the diversion of 1.72 tmc (48.7 Mcum) of water from the Kalasa nala (a no...