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WRD chief engineer Sandeep Nadkarni, said, “Earlier, when the letter of protest was sent, the Maharashtra government had stopped work. The Maharashtra government had decided to accumulate around 23.8MLD of water per day from the Colvale river and distribute it through pipelines to villages in Vengurla and Dodamarg. We will take necessary steps in this matter.”The Colvale river is known as the Tillari further upstream, where the joint venture of the Goa and Maharashtra governments the Tillari Irrigation Project has been functioning. Goa’s WRD has installed a pump house at Sal that transfers water from the Tillari into the Amthane bandhara, from where it is diverted to the Assonora water treatment plant to meet the shortfall of drinking water in the state. KERI: After a four-year lull, the Maharashtra government has resumed work on the anicut (bandhara) over the Colvale river at Sasoli-Maneri, a part of the Dodamarg taluka that borders Bicholim and Pernem in Goa.Undertaken by Maharashtra’s water authority at Kankavli , construction had begun in 2014 without the consent of the Goa government, prompting the Laxmikant Parsekar-led regime to protest..