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Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy on Thursday recommended desalination of seawater as a solution to Tamil Nadu's perennial water problem and the Cauvery dispute.
The Tamil Nadu government was demeaning the people of the state by begging Karnataka for Cauvery waters, and getting less and less each year, he said in Chennai.
Swamy even offered to set up 10 desalination plants along the coastline at a reduced rate from Israel.
The entire project, costing Rs 10,000 crore, could be completed in 6 months, he said.
He also said that all the rivers in southern India be linked as an alternative scheme.
He suggested the linking of the Mahanadi in Orissa with the Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. The Mahanadi, Swamy said, discharged 10,000 tmcft [thousand million cubic feet] of water into the Bay of Bengal, which could be diverted.
This, he said, would not only solve the irrigation needs of Tamil Nadu, but also provide thousands of jobs for the people of Andhra Pradesh.
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