Government plans survey on feasibility of drawing Sharavathi water to Bengaluru; experts strongly oppose project Aiming to utilise around 40 TMC (thousand million cubic) of excess water at the ...

In detail: Is the project feasible; what options does Bengaluru have; why are locals of region against it? As discussions about diverting Sharavathi River water to Bengaluru resurface, significant ...

SHIVAMOGGA: With the Karnataka government looking at the Linganamakki reservoir to divert Sharavathi water to Bengaluru to meet the increasing demand for drinking water, experts are raising questions ...

BENGALURU: Two former Supreme Court judges, Justice N Santosh Hegde and Justice V Gopala Gowda, on Saturday opposed the Sharavathi pumped storage project (SPSP), proposed by the state energy ...

BENGALURU: Despite stiff opposition from experts, conservationists, serving and retired forest department officials, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday approved an energy department’s proposal to ...

Shivamogga: It was only recently that the Malnad district, through the Sharavathi Nadi Ulisi Horata Okkuta (Federation to save river Sharavathi), opposed the state government’s move to draw water from ...

Mysuru/Shivamogga: The National Board of Wildlife’s (NBWL) decision to give a nod to the geotechnical survey to take up the highly controversial Sharavathi pumped storage power plant project has ...

The residents of Sagar taluk, environmentalists, and politicians opposed the Sharavathi Pumped Storage Project at the environmental public hearing conducted by the Karnataka Power Corporation Limited ...

Expressing apprehension that the proposed Sharavathi underground pumped storage project will affect the fragile ecology of the Sharavathi valley that is home for rare species such as the Lion-tailed ...

Karwar: With the Sharavathi in spate after release of water from the Gersoppa dam, around 336 people from 137 families have been shifted to temporary rehabilitation centres in Honnavar. The ...