From rbalachan@GMAIL.COM Sun Apr 10 15:55:10 2005 Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:23:04 -0700 From: Ramachandran BalachandranTo: nathistory-india@Princeton.EDU Subject: The Hindu Report: Is Cauvery water safe for consumption? [ Part 1, Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1") 15 lines. ] [ Unable to print this part. ] [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ] [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set. ] [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ] Is Cauvery water, the lifeline of the people of Bangalore, Mysore and Mandya, safe for drinking? The question is doing the rounds in the light of recent reports that large quantities of animal waste and by-products of slaughtered animals are being dumped into the river in a surreptitious manner near Siddapura, about 60 km from the Krishnaraja Sagar reservoir. http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/06/stories/2005040602600600.htm -B