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Udupi: Nagarjuna – Sea Water Enters Agricultural Fields

  •   Mon, Mar 22 2010 03:16:02 PM

Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Mar 22: Several agricultural fields in Yermal Bada and Yermal Tenka villages near Padubidri were inundated in saline water because of the unscientific joining of the pipes that carry sea water to the thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd (erstwhile Nagarjuna) that is being run experimentally as of now.

Sea water is being pumped to the plant for being put to use after purification.  After the salty water entered the fields, the water of a few wells in the area also turned saline, posing drinking water problems for the people. The villagers said that during the execution stage itself, they had warned the contractors concerned that the pipes might give way under the force of the water.

When some journalists brought this development to the notice of the state home minister, Dr V S Acharya, during his visit to Ellur villageon Sunday, he said he was unaware of the incident and that he would immediately instruct the concerned to initiate corrective measures.
  

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  • george borromeo, pumpwell, angelore, mangalore

    Mon, Mar 22 2010

    This is only the begining.Slowly we shall see the destruction of our green environment, our clean atmosphere and finally the animals and human lives.

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  • D.M.D' Souza, Bantwal

    Mon, Mar 22 2010

    This is in its experimental stage- many more disasters are waiting to happen in future when they go full swing & add more capacity in stages. When whole Europe shuns Coal based Thermal power plants we embrace it in the name of progress.

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