chennai a row is brewing over keralas offer of a trainload of water to tamil nadu to tide over the acute scarcity kerala says tamil nadu turned down the offer of 20 lakh litres of water made on thursday but tamil nadu denies this and says its waiting for chief minister edappadi k palaniswami to return from hospital to decide for his part opposition leader and dmk chief m k stalin thanked the kerala government for its offer and urged the tamil nadu government to work with the neighbouring statea statement from kerala chief minister pinarayi vijayans office said the state was prepared to send 20 lakh litres by train from thiruvananthapuram to chennai since the major water bodies of chennai has been facing acute water shortage the kerala government decided to extend an helping hand it said adding that the tamil nadu chief ministers office had replied that there was no need for help at presentin a series of tweets later in the day tamil nadu water supply minister s p velumani said the kerala cms secretary called up his tn counterpart and made a onetime offer of water supply in 20 rail wagons