Support farmers to plant 242 Cr trees to revitalize Cauvery.
Sj Satheesh Kumar
Support farmers to plant 242 Cr trees to revitalize Cauvery.
1. The Cauvery River originates in the Western Ghats and empties into the Bay of Bengal.
2. Kaveri is the original spelling of this river. Cauvery is the English spelling.
3. Asia’s first hydroelectric plant used water from this river to power the city of Bangalore.
4. While the waters of this river are shared between the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu uses a majority of the resources.
5. The state of Karnataka complains that the water distribution is unjustly divided and this should be changed.
6. Talakad, a holy temple town in which the festival of Panchalinga Darshana is held every 12 years, is on the banks of the Cauvery. Devotees bathe in the waters
of this river during the days of this festival.
7. The people of Tamil Nadu, who rely so heavily on the Cauvery River, celebrate its floods with a festival.
8. It is the most important water source to South India.
