{"id":47563,"date":"2025-05-15T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=47563"},"modified":"2025-05-29T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T07:59:08","slug":"adyar-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/adyar-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Adyar River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Adyar River Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A Rs 1,500-crore project to rejuvenate and restore a \u2018dead&#8217; 44-km stretch of River Adyar is stuck since 2023 and lying choked in the city.<\/p>\n<h2>About Adyar River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adyar, or Adayar, originating near the Chembarambakkam Lake in Kanchipuram district, is\u00a0<strong>one of the three rivers<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0<strong>winds through Chennai,<\/strong>\u00a0Tamil Nadu, and\u00a0<strong>join the Bay of Bengal at the Adyar Estuary.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>estuary,\u00a0<\/strong>covering an area of about 300 acres, was made a\u00a0<strong>protected wildlife reserve\u00a0<\/strong>in 1987.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The 42.5-kilometre (26.4 mi) long river\u00a0<strong>contributes to the estuarine ecosystem of Chennai.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>river forms a backwater near the mouth,\u00a0<\/strong>known as the\u00a0<strong>Adyar Creek,<\/strong>\u00a0due to the formation of sandbars at the mouth.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>This creek is a<strong>\u00a0natural channel<\/strong>\u00a0which\u00a0<strong>carries tidal water back into the sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The river\u00a0<strong>collects surplus water from\u00a0<\/strong>about 200<strong>\u00a0tanks and lakes, small stream<\/strong>s, and the\u00a0<strong>rainwater drain<\/strong>s in the Chennai city, with a combined catchment area of 860 sq.km.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Most of the waste from the city is drained into this river.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Adyar River FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0Where does the Adyar River originate?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0The Adyar River originates from the Chembarambakkam Lake, which is located in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0Into which body of water does the Adyar River flow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Bay of Bengal<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:<\/strong>\u00a0Which city does the Adyar River primarily flow through?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Chennai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/1500cr-plan-to-restore-adyar-river-runs-into-vote-bank-politics-as-encroachments-remain\/articleshow\/121169810.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adyar River is one of three rivers flowing through Chennai, Tamil Nadu, playing a key role in the city&#8217;s drainage and ecological landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[450,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-47563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-adyar-river","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47563","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}