CASE STUDY

IMPORTANCE

• Kaveri or Cauvery is a waterway that streams in the conditions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
• It is the most significant stream in Tamil Nadu, which isolates the state into north and south.
• People in South India consider Kaveri a goddess and love it as “Kaveri Amman.”
• Kaveri River begins from Brahmhagiri Hills in Kodagu situated in Karnataka.
• Kaveri River streams into the south-eastern course through the conditions of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
• Before falling into the Bay of Bengal in the south of Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, Kaveri River partitions into a vast number of
distributaries framing extensive deltas.
• At Sivanasamudram, the Kaveri River further gets diminished shaping famous falls called “GaganChukki” and “Bara Chukki.”
• The Kaveri River bowl covers three states and forms an association domain viz, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and Pondicherry.
• The ‘Torekadanahalli’ siphon station gives 540 million liters of water each day from the river to 100 km to Bangalore.
• The hydroelectric plant built-in 1902 to one side of Sivanasamudra falls on the Kaveri River was the primary hydroelectric plant in
Asia.
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