Rivers, known as mother rivers in many local to regional languages, dialects and cultural idioms, are known as bedrocks of civilisation. River valley populations in the hilly gorges are thus civilisations within our larger civilisation.
Craters on the banks of the Cauvery affect Deccan Mahseer's spawning area
It is one of the largest freshwater game fish
Construction boom in Bangalore blamed
GALIBORE (Ramanagar dt): Past midnight, the chugging of tractors carrying men and shovels punctuates the tranquillity of the forest. In an hour or two, shadowy figures furtively fill the tractors with fresh sand, which are quickly then driven away from the scene, leaving behind deep craters on the banks of the Cauvery.
Existing Cauvery basin irrigation area not protected: Tamil Nadu
Karnataka questions Tribunal's methodology
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday posted for final hearing in November three special leave petitions filed by Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala challenging the final award passed by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal on February 5, 2007. The Union Territory of Puducherry, which is also a party to the dispute, has not filed an SLP.
The City will get drinking water on a daily basis from 2011, when work on the second phase of the Cauvery Water Supply Scheme Stage IV is complete, said Katta Subramanya Naidu, Minister for BWSSB, Excise, IT-BT and Information Department.
No shortage of fertilizers, says Thanjavur Collector
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CHENNAI: The kuruvai crop is being raised smoothly in the Cauvery delta through judicious use of water, Collectors of the districts covered by the delta informed Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Tuesday.
AGITATED by the lack of transparency in the functioning of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), 100 people, mostly farmers, on Tuesday sought clarifications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from the District Environmental Engineer's office.
"TNPCB has consistently treated citizens as trouble-makers and enemies, and has gone out of its way to support polluters,' they alleged.
The newly elected BJP Government in Karnataka will face its first major crisis in resolving the sensitive Hogenakkal issue with the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi announcing the revival of the controversial drinking water project in the Cauvery basin. The two neighbouring states went on the offensive after the Chief Minister-elect BS Yeddyurappa visited Hogenakkal last March and protested against the implementation of the drinking water project to cater to Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts in Tamil Nadu.
Many farmers have switched over to sericulture from the conventional crops of paddy or groundnut in the central districts in the past two years. This has come in handy for officials of the Sericulture Department, which has planned to increase the area under sericulture in the Cauvery delta districts. Encouraged by the overwhelming response from farmers, the Department has planned to bring an additional 550 acres under sericulture (230 acres in Tiruchi district; 117 in Thanjavur; 65 in Perambalur; 112 in Pudukottai and 26 at the foot of the Pachamalai Hills).
In 1998, Karnataka agreed to abide by the conditions imposed by the Union Water Resources Ministry if Tamil Nadu withdrew its objections to Cauvery water being used to augment supply to Bangalore, according to the minutes of a meeting convened by the Union Secretary (Water Resources) and attended by officers of the Cauvery basin States on drinking water supply schemes of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu on June 29, 1998.
