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Farmers Associations successful Theni and Water Resources Department officials connected Thursday conducted interfaith supplication astatine Mullaperiyar dam for rain. The farmers were affected by the deficiency of rainfall successful the region.
According to the farmers, the merchandise of h2o from the dam for the archetypal harvest play was delayed owed to deficiency of rainfall. There was besides a drinking h2o shortage successful the region, they said.
Water was usually released connected June 1 for the archetypal paddy harvest season. Although determination was rainfall successful Kerala, Mullaperiyar dam catchment areas did not person overmuch rainfall and h2o was yet to beryllium released for the archetypal harvest play arsenic the h2o level successful the dam did not emergence arsenic expected, they said.
They said successful the past 20 days, the h2o level roseate by little than 3 feet, reaching lone 113.55 feet. Despite the onset of the monsoon, insufficient rainfall successful the catchment areas has kept some the h2o level and the inflow beneath the threshold required for the merchandise of water.
Interfaith supplication was held astatine Mullaperiyar dam adjacent the caput sluice wherever h2o is released to Tamil Nadu. The prayers were conducted arsenic per Hindu, Muslim and Christian traditions, they said.
