Watch | How this ‘dead’ river in Kerala was transformed
A view of revived Kuttamperoor river in Alappuzha.
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The Kuttamperoor river, a tributary of the Pampa and Achencoil rivers, died a sluggish demise round 2005 because of years of waste dumping, encroachments and different actions.
Today, it’s transformed.
The 100-metre broad river shrunk to lower than 15 metres at many areas, and this resulted in wells drying up in a number of locations.
The preliminary effort to revive the river was made in 2011, nevertheless it took one other 5 years to get the venture rolling. Led by the Budhanoor panchayat, the primary spherical of cleansing was carried out in 2017 by a lot of staff below the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme.
Watch the video to know extra about the way it was revived. Read the total story right here.
Reporting: Sam Paul A.
Script: Aswin VN
Production: Reenu Cyriac
Voiceover: KP Gopika
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