Date:07/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/07/stories/2009010756570300.htm

Kerala

An end to woes…

Photo: Leju Kamal

FOR PARCHED LAND: Pipes being laid by the Water Resources Department on the Pampa river-bed at Maramon, near Kozhencherry, on Tuesday as part of a project to revive a 40-year-old irrigation scheme that has been lying defunct for the past few years owing to acute water scarcity in the river during the pre-summer and summer months. The Rs.3.5-lakh project aims at fetching water from the channel on the western part of the river-bed to the dry eastern side where the pumping station is located. —