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It will be feasible to build the barrages, but it will require huge investment,” said Mannargudi S.
Ranganathan, general secretary, Cauvery Delta Farmers Welfare Association. Farmers, however, feel that the Chief Minister should not be ruling out any storage options in the delta region. Swamimalai Vimalnathan, secretary, Thanjavur District Cauvery Farmers Protection Association, felt that the Chief Minister has only played into the hands of Karnataka. more-inFarmers’ organisations in the Cauvery delta region have urged the government to wake up to the need to save at least a portion of the water that goes waste in surplus years by building barrages. “Our association had made a representation seeking the construction of barrages at 18 places between the Upper and Lower Anicuts on the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers..