<p>"My first step is to ensure that final award of Cauvery tribunal is gazetted, finding an early solution to the issue," she told a delegation of Tamil Nadu Cauvery Delta Farmers' Welfare Association which met her in the city this evening.<br /><br />TN and Karnataka are locked in a battle over the decades-long dispute on sharing of Cauvery waters. The tribunal had in 2007 given its final award, allocating 419 tmcft water to TN and 270 tmcft to Karnataka.<br /><br />However, Jayalalithaa had been crying hoarse against the previous DMK government, accusing it of failing to get the award notified in the central gazette.</p>
<p>"My first step is to ensure that final award of Cauvery tribunal is gazetted, finding an early solution to the issue," she told a delegation of Tamil Nadu Cauvery Delta Farmers' Welfare Association which met her in the city this evening.<br /><br />TN and Karnataka are locked in a battle over the decades-long dispute on sharing of Cauvery waters. The tribunal had in 2007 given its final award, allocating 419 tmcft water to TN and 270 tmcft to Karnataka.<br /><br />However, Jayalalithaa had been crying hoarse against the previous DMK government, accusing it of failing to get the award notified in the central gazette.</p>