
Water level in Mullaperiyar dam stands at 121.50 feet
The Hindu
MADURAI: Current water levels in Mullaperiyar and Vaigai dams, with inflow, discharge, and total storage details provided.
Water level in Mullaperiyar dam on Saturday stood at 121.50 feet (permissible level is 142 feet) with nil inflow and a discharge of 1,222 cusecs. In Vaigai dam, the level was 65.06 ft. (maximum level is 71 ft.) with an inflow of 121 cusecs and a discharge of 72 cusecs. Combined storage in Periyar credit was 4,603 mcft.

The municipal bus stand auditorium in Malappuram was packed. But nobody quite knew what to expect. After all, a new event was making its debut at the State School Arts Festival. The moment V.G. Harikrishnan started his rendition of Pyar bhare do sharmile nain..., everyone was convinced that Ghazal was here to stay. The student from GVHSS, Atholi (Kozhikode), was applauded loudly for his rendering of the timeless ghazal sung originally by Mehdi Hassan.

For the last few weeks, several wards in Madurai city have been getting piped drinking water through a new drinking water scheme. The sweetness of the generously supplied water has led to loss of business to several suppliers of canned drinking water in the city. But, not many know that the water supplied to the houses in Madurai is directly drawn from Lower Dam of Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district of Kerala.











