After more than an hour-long meeting, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said she had demanded a "bare minimum" requirement of 30 tmcft of water but Karnataka flatly refused, saying it could not release even a single drop of water.
Expressing state's inability, Karnataka Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said there was a distress in the state and it was not in a position to release water to Tamil Nadu.
The meeting came as a follow up to the apex court's suggestion to both the Chief Ministers to meet and arrive at an amicable solution to the "sensitive" water dispute, dogging both the states for decades.
This was the second time in 15 years that Chief Ministers of the two states had bilateral talks on the water row after 1997 when M Karunanidhi and J H Patel met in Chennai.
"....So, we will go back to Supreme Court tomorrow and inform it about the outcome of today's meeting..." Jayalalithaa told reporters. MORE
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