This story is from December 7, 2014

Global-interest tenders floated for water projects: Minister

Water resources minister M B Patil has said that global-tenders, seeking interest in revival of Arkavathy and Tunga-Bhadra rivers and Meke Datu project, have been floated, and the issue has been publicized in international magazines and newspapers to attract best technology in the field.
Global-interest tenders floated for water projects: Minister
MYSORE: Water resources minister M B Patil has said that global-tenders, seeking interest in revival of Arkavathy and Tunga-Bhadra rivers and Meke Datu project, have been floated, and the issue has been publicized in international magazines and newspapers to attract best technology in the field.
Addressing reporters here on Friday, he said that the issue has been publicized in different languages across 14 countries as the initial tenders put on websites failed to get global attention.
"We have published the matter in business newspapers and magazines, including Walls Street Journal," he said, adding that the government will soon start working on the three projects.
Patil said that the aim of floating global-interest tenders is to attract the best technology which suits the geography and topography of the rivers and the corresponding irrigation projects.
Patil said: "The Meke Datu project, planned for supplying drinking water, is aimed at utilizing excess water in the Cauvery basin. We will see to that only minimum land is submerged. The government intends to reduce the submergible forest area as far possible. We will not let the project damage the pristine forests and ecology of the area as the project is proposed in an eco-sensitive zone."
The government will soon finalize on global agencies to take up work on reviving these rivers and execute the Meke Datu project.
"The Meke Datu project will revive all drinking water storages and tanks supplying water to Bengaluru," he said, adding that the government is determined to take up this project irrespective of the controversies surrounding it. "We are only utilizing the excess of 191tmc-ft of water earmarked for Tamil Nadu, and there is no question of us snatching the share of the neighbouring state," he said.
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