Farmers seek lift irrigation project from Moyar as water scarcity grips Thalavadi

Severe h2o shortage has deed Thalavadi taluk, prompting residents and farmers to property for a assistance irrigation task from the Moyar stream to conscionable drinking h2o needs and augment groundwater recharge successful the elevation region.

The taluk, connected the Tamil Nadu-Karnataka borderline and mostly wrong the Sathyamangalam Tiger Reserve (STR), comprises 28 gross villages, 11 colony panchayats, and 19 tribal hamlets. With a colonisation of astir 70,000, it serves arsenic a catchment for the Suvarnavathy and Chikkahole dams successful Karnataka, with runoff from the hills draining into these reservoirs.