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Face of a Surangam View of Suranga from inside, towards its face. Suranga (also Surangam or thurangam) (English: Tunnel well) is a traditional water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water for human settlements and irrigation in Kasargod district of Kerala and Dakshin Kannada district of Karnataka, India.
Lakes are called keres (ಕೆರೆ) in Kannada language, [2] and are traditionally referred to as tanks. [3] Researcher Rohan D'Souza has suggested that the concept of 'kere' and 'lake' differ; for example the former also refers to the wetland and bund while the latter focuses more on a body of water surrounded by land. [4]
The Linganamakki Dam was constructed by the Karnataka State Government in 1964. Located in the Linganamakki village of Sagara taluk, the dam has a length of 2.74 kilometres (1.70 mi) stretching across the Sharavathi river. It is located about 9 km from Jog Falls. [1] It has an effective storage capacity of 4.29 cubic km or 151.52 tmc ft of water.
It is a fresh water lake created in the year 1894 across the Arkavathy River to meet the drinking water needs of the city. Sir K. Seshadri Iyer, the then Dewan of erstwhile Mysore state and the then Chief Engineer of Mysuru , M. C. Hutchins, planned to build the scheme called the "Chamarajendra Water Works" to store a three-years' water supply ...
The water is used for irrigation in Mysore and Mandya, and it is the main source of drinking water for all of Mysore, Mandya and almost the whole of Bengaluru city, the capital of Karnataka. [8] The water released from this dam flows into the state of Tamil Nadu and is stored in Mettur dam in the Salem district.
Water Resources of Karnataka This page was last edited on 14 July 2024, at 02:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The project, known by its acronym as KUWASIP (Karnataka Urban Water Sector Improvement Project), was supported by a US$ 39.5 million loan from the World Bank. It constitutes a milestone for India, where no large city so far has achieved continuous water supply. The project is expected to be scaled-up to cover the entire area of the three cities.
An additional strategy to water conservation is practicing sustainable methods of utilizing groundwater resources. [8] Groundwater flows due to gravity and eventually discharges into streams. [ 9 ] Excess pumping of groundwater leads to a decrease in groundwater levels and if continued it can exhaust the resource. [ 8 ]