Southern districts may get entangled in acute drinking water crisis as water level in dams falling rapidly

The 4 confederate districts whitethorn get entangled successful acute drinking h2o situation during this summertime arsenic h2o level successful each large dams feeding millions of colonisation successful these districts too nourishing implicit a lakh hectares of onshore is dwindling accelerated owed to the aggravated adust spell prevailing successful the catchment areas on the Western Ghats.

As the 122-km-long Tamirabharani traverses from Tirunelveli’s Papanasam to Thoothukudi’s Punnakayal, 236 infiltration wells person been dug on the perennial stream to proviso drinking h2o to a fewer cardinal colonisation successful Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi and Virudhunagar districts. The Papanasam and Manimuthar dams, having cumulative retention capableness of 11,011 cardinal cubic feet and hence provender implicit 85,000 acres of wetlands successful Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts, present person lone 2,890 mcft of water, which cannot adjacent conscionable the drinking h2o needs of Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi, Tenkasi and Virudhunagar districts during this summer. Hence, the industries of Thoothukudi district, which are relying upon the Tamirabharani to conscionable their h2o needs, are being told repeatedly to acceptable up their captive desalination plants for their concern requirements.