{"id":100812,"date":"2026-10-29T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=100812"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T09:40:50","slug":"noyyal-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/noyyal-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Noyyal River Pollution: Tamil Nadu Farmers Demand Restoration of Cauvery Tributary"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Noyyal River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent comment by the Tamil Nadu Minister for Environment and Climate Change, that soap and shampoo used by the public can also cause excessive foaming in the Noyyal River, which flows through Tiruppur district, has sparked criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Noyyal River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an important <\/span><b>tributary of the Cauvery<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River, flowing through <\/span><b>Western Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The &#8220;Noyyal&#8221; is a <\/span><b>sacred river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Tamil history, and its <\/span><b>original name was &#8220;Kanchi Nadi&#8221;; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">however, it was later changed to the name of the place where it drains into the Kaveri River in 1750 A.D.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>begins <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from numerous small streams in the <\/span><b>Vellingiri Hills,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which are part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nbr\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the <\/span><b>Western Ghats.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flows through the districts of <\/span><b>Coimbatore, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tirupur, and Erode<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>meets <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><b>Cauvery River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the Noyyal village in Karur District.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Total Length: 158 km<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> seasonal river <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with rapid flows during the monsoon periods.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Noyyal watershed<\/b> <b>is connected <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a <\/span><b>series of 32 tanks, 14 major canals, 23 anicuts, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>55 check dams.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of these<\/span><b> check dams and anicuts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were <\/span><b>constructed by the Chola Kings,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who ruled the region in the 9th to 12th centuries to augment irrigation and control floods downstream.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Noyyal River has two main <\/span><b>tributaries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Cheyyar River<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Chadiaar River) and <\/span><b>Kanchimanadhi River.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also home to major dams like <\/span><b>Aathupalayam Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Orathuppalayam Dam<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Until the early 20th century,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Noyyal was the <\/span><b>main drinking water source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for the region.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today the Noyyal is <\/span><b>one of the most polluted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> rivers in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/tamil-nadu-environment-ministers-remark-on-soap-shampoo-use-causing-noyyal-river-foaming-draws-ire\/article71634808.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>TH<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Coimbatore\u2013Tiruppur region are demanding urgent restoration of the heavily polluted Noyyal River to protect agriculture and local livelihoods. Originating in the Vellingiri Hills of the Western Ghats, the 158-km-long river flows through Coimbatore, Tiruppur and Erode before joining the Cauvery in Karur district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":100787,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7212,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-100812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-noyyal-river","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100812"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131127,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100812\/revisions\/131127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}