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Dry Cauvery disappoints elephants too

By V. Ganapathy

TIRUCHI AUG. 1 . The drying up of the Cauvery has hit not only thousands of devotees and pilgrims, besides local residents, who generally take bath in the Cauvery and Coleroon rivers, but also the few elephants in the city.

The Coleroon has become contaminated owing to mixing of sewerage with the meagre flow in the river.

Elephants from the Srirangam and Tiruvanaikovil temples, which used to go to the river, are getting their daily bath from pumpsets in houses or fields.

And two elephants, owned by residents of Chennai and Madurai, camping in Tiruchi for the past few days, have to walk over 4 km in the hot river sand to a small pool available for bathing in the Cauvery.

The mahouts said they never experienced such hardship for bathing or drinking water in Srirangam or Tiruchi in the past.

Many houseowners at Srirangam said water level in borewells had gone down by over 30 feet in the past three weeks.

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