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Give a reasoned account of river water disputes related to the River Krishna.

  • UPSC 2015
  • Political Aspects

The basin's geography manufactures the dispute before any tribunal touches it — the Krishna rises at Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats and runs 1,400 km east across the Deccan, draining 2.59 lakh sq km through reaches of 305 km in Maharashtra, 483 in Karnataka and 612 downstream.

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  • The physical reason: an inverted supply-demand geography
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  • Why the disputes outlive their awards
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