Southern districts may get entangled in acute drinking water crisis as water level in dams falling rapidly
Southern districts face a severe drinking water crisis as dam levels plummet amid ongoing dry conditions and lack of rainfall.
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The four southern districts may get entangled in acute drinking water crisis during this summer as water level in all major dams feeding millions of population in these districts besides nourishing over a lakh hectares of land is dwindling fast due to the intense dry spell prevailing in the catchment areas along the Western Ghats.As the 122-km-long Tamirabharani traverses from Tirunelveli’s Papanasam to Thoothukudi’s Punnakayal, 236 infiltration wells have been dug along the perennial river to supply drinking water to a few million population in Tirunelveli, Tenkasi, Thoothukudi and Virudhunagar districts.
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