The Cauvery Water Regulatory Committee (CWRC) has selected the Kerala Engineering Research Institute (KERI), Peechi, to conduct physical and mathematical model studies of Banasurasagar Dam located in Wayanad.
The studies are aimed at evolving systems to ensure that Kerala will get the stipulated quantity of water from the Cauvery river, as per the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal (CWDT) Award.
The sharing of waters of the interstate river, Cauvery was an issue of conflict between the co-basin states of Karnataka, Nadu, Kerala and Union territory of Puducherry. The CWDT constituted in 1956 to adjudicate the disputes between the co-basin states, had delivered its final order on February 5, 2007.