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	Rivers of Western Ghats - Rivers of Western Ghats
		The Korayar The river Korayar is a tributary to the Tamiraparani.
		Aintharuviar The Aintharuviar is one of the tributaries of the river Chittar.
		Hanumanathi It is a tributary of the Chittar river.
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /biodiversity/documents/rivers.htm (4296 words)

	Rivers @ calicutcity.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The river has its origin from Cherukulathur village and is connected to the Chaliyar on the south by a man-made canal.
		Known in the lower reaches as the Beypore river, this is one of the major rivers of the state.
		This river is formed by the confluence of its two main tributaries, the Olipuzha and the Veliyar.
	www.calicutcity.com /ourcity/riversdetails.htm (564 words)

	Ground Water Department - Malappuram
		Malappuram district is mainly drained by the Kadalundi river, Chaliyar and Bharathapuzha.
		The Chaliyar river, one of the major rivers of the State, originates from the Ilambalari Hills in Nilgiri district of Tamilnadu (+2066 m msl).
		The Bharathapuzha or the Ponnani river is the second longest river of Kerala, originating from the Anamalai Hills (+1964 m amsl) in the western ghats.
	malappuram.nic.in /gw.html (2263 words)

	The Hindu : Kerala / Kozhikode News : And clean flows the Chaliyar?
		They say the river Chaliyar is regaining its original form.
		Local fish varieties such as `irimeen', `malan', `braal' and mussels have returned to the river in plenty supplementing the food of the local people and restoring the traditional occupations of scores of fisherfolk and traders downstream of Mavoor.
		The water pollution was particularly less near the regulator-cum-bridge at the river, he says.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/04/04/stories/2005040404380300.htm (521 words)

	Malappuram - At A Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rich and evergreen forests, ravines, hills and dales, rivers and brookes, sandy surfs and palm fringed coasts, festive mood of the gayful Oonapatt - the district preserves the cultural wealth of the good old days.
		The climate is generally hot and humid; the range of temperature varying between 30° C and 20° C. The average annual rainfall is 2900 mm.
		Bharathapuzha the Second longest river in Kerala, flows by the southern border of the district and drains into the sea at Ponnani.
	www.ananthapuri.com /malappuram.asp (1121 words)

	YachtsIndia.com provides information of Kerala Backwaters, houseboats, backwaters, Kerala tours, kerala travels, kerala ...
		Located at the mouth of the Chaliyar river, Beypore, one of the prominent ports and fishing harbours of ancient Kerala was an important trade and maritime centre.
		Onipuzha, Thottilpalam puzha, Vamathil puzha and the Mandapalli puzha are the tributaries of the river, that smoothly flows gracing the soil of Oorakuchi, Kuttiady, Tiruvallur, Muyipoth, Maniyur and Karuvancheri.
		The length of this river is 169 kms.
	www.yachtsindia.com /tourist_calicut_page1.htm (2315 words)

	TerraGreen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaliyar – the final struggle is a film that frames this story; an ode to the untiring zest of a people.
		In the villages of Vazhyoor and Vazhakkad in Kerala, the Chaliyar river has been polluted by an industry built on its banks, the Grasim Mavoor Rayons factory.
		The 1960s and early 1970s were a painful time for the people of the region, and ironically, the factory faced closure too for a while in 1974 when the river got so polluted that it lost its very flow.
	www.teri.res.in /teriin/terragreen/issue10/reviews.htm (864 words)

	India4u - Regional - Kerala - Districts - Kozhikode
		The important rivers of the district are the Mahe river, the Kuttiady river, the Korapuzha, the Kallai river, the Chaliyar river and the Kadalundi river.
		From the commercial point of view, Kallai is one of the most important rivers in the whole State.
		The Chaliyar river, known as the lower reaches of the Beypore river, is one of the major rivers of the State.
	www.india4u.com /Kerala/districts/kozhikkode.asp (873 words)

	siliconindia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Most of the inland waterways and rivers in Kerala are facing a slow death - River Chaliyar was slammed and got nearly killed due to pollution from the pulp factory in Mavoor run by one of India's biggest industrial groups.
		River Bhavani is around 200 kms long river which originate from Nilgris in Western Ghats in Tamilnadu side.
		River Noyyal, a seasonal river of Tamilnadu is dead.
	www.siliconindia.com /onlinexclusive/nextpage.asp?ID=YWQ120980668 (839 words)

	Rangeet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Rangeet River is a tributary of the river Teesta, the largest river in the Indian states and territories of India of Sikkim.
		The river originates in the Himalayan mountains in West Sikkim district.
		A perennial river, it is fed by the melting snow of the Himalayas in early summer, and the monsoon rains in July-August.
	read-and-go.hopto.org /Indian-rivers/Rangeet.html (108 words)

	GEOGRAPHY AND PHYSICAL FEATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The midland region is fertile with thick coconut groves while the hilly tract has dense forests and extensive teak plantations apart being the source of innumerable streams and rivers.
		Chaliyar or Beyore river, one of the major rivers of the State, takes its origin from Elembileri hills of Waynad taluk.
		This river forms a part of the west coast navigation system from Palathigal in the south to Mannur in the north.
	malappuram.nic.in /geography.html (494 words)

	Chapter 6 Water-related Studies
		The study of this river system has become very complicated partly because it is an inter-State river with a network of inter-linked dams constructed for generation of electricity and supply of irrigation and drinking water.
		Data on the daily discharge of the river at Ambalakadavu and Chalakudy (from 1963 to 1999) were available from the hydrological section of the Irrigation Department, Thrissur circle and from the regional office of the Central Water Commission (CWC) at Arangalikadavu, Annanad (for the period 1960-1997).
		The river Chaliyar and the people who live in the area who are affected by air and water pollution have been the victims throughout the period.
	www.krpcds.org /water.htm (5151 words)

	Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The banks of River Chaliyar in Kerala, the southernmost state of India, is now witnessing perhaps the final battle in one of the longest environmental struggles in the country.
		The people of the Chaliyar villages are now on a do-or-die agitation against the polluting factory demanding its closure and the rehabilitation of its workers because they know they can't stand the pollution any more.
		Nearly three hundred thousand people in the unorganised sectors who are dependent on the river Chaliyar for their livelihood are facing a crisis.
	education.vsnl.com /chaliyar/issue.html (376 words)

	TOURIST ATTRACTIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This plot of 2.31 Hectares, is beside the Chaliyar river at Aruvakode, where a country boat ferry is ready for visitors.
		Beyond Chaliyar river, 27 Km from Nilambur, is Valamthode, a hill top place where a perennial waterfall attracts people.
		Balikarma is offered by people in their wet clothes, after a dip in the river, for the salvation of sins and to appease the manes.
	malappuram.net /html/touristattractions.htm (1562 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Business News: Kerala greens step up moves to get Grasim down shutters
		Rahman is one of the 213 people who have died of cancer at Vazhakkad village which faces the brunt of the mercury and cadmium discharged into the Chaliyar river.
		Studies have pointed out that the aquatic wealth in the Chaliyar river has considerably depleted due to discharge of effluents from the unit into the river.
		The Chaliyar Agitation Council would be starting an indefinite fast before the Grasim unit from January 26 as part of the statewide struggle.
	www.rediff.com /business/1999/jan/19keral.htm (1050 words)

	Kerala villagers determined to reclaim Chaliyar
		India's longest running environmental crusade is against a rayon and pulp factory on the Chaliyar river in Kerala that recently claimed the life of an activist who died of cancer.
		It assured the Chaliyar Action Committee, which represents the 3 lakh people living around the factory, that it would demolish abarrage to pump water to the factory and lay a 20-km pipeline to discharge the effluents directly into the sea by 1966.
		For the villages on the Chaliyar it was a period of reprieve, but for Grasim workers it was a loss of livelihood.
	www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19990411/fec11013.html (593 words)

	DAMS, RIVERS AND PEOPLE : MAY 1999 UPDATE
		Chaliyar river has become a dumping ground for effluents from Grasim Industries and over 200 villagers of Vazhakkad situated on its banks are now suffering from cancer.
		The River Gorai which was heavily silted up and lost her navigability for months together during the lean period is now flowing again from Kushtia to the Sunderbans (Bangladesh).
		The Tilpara Barrage on the Myurakshi river is fully committed to irrigation and the Bakreswar dam on the Bakreswar river being constructed for the TPS is unlikely to be ready before 2000.
	www.narmada.org /sandrp/may99update.html (10554 words)

	NILAMBUR - Renowned for world's First Teak Plantation and for world's First Teak Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Beyond Chaliyar river, 27 Km from Nilambur, is Valamthode, a hill top where a perennial waterfall attracts people.
		This hill is situated on the border of Kerala and Tamilnadu from where the river Chaliyar originates and is clothed in dense forests and bamboo woods that add beauty to the place.
		Constructed over the Chaliyar river, 13 Kms away from Kondotty hill, the regulator cum bridge has 95 percentage of its construction completed.
	www.nilambur.com /pages/4attractions.htm (1010 words)

	Yojna.org: Let's make a Difference
		The major chunk of water from these dams that would have come to the to the Bharatapuzha and Chaliyar river basins was diverted to Tamil Nadu.
		The report said that excessive sand mining, lowering of watertable in and around the river,lowering of the river bed,encroachment on banks,contamination of water, and erotion of river banks were the major problems faced by the river.The committee report warned that,"with the present rate of extraction of sand it is clear
		He said the river is almost dead due to ecological imbalance created by human wantonness.Prof.
	www.yojna.org /bharat.htm (616 words)

	Indian Express: Kerala activist takes up cause of dying river (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Chaliyar river in north Kerala has become a dumping ground for effluents from Grasim Industries and over 200 villagers of Vazhakkad situated on its banks are now suffering from cancer.
		She said that the unit was literally eating into the bamboo forests in Wayanad and air pollution had caused chronic bronchitis among villagers, 14 per cent of men and 7 per cent of women, twice the number of those suffering from it in the Capital.
		She screened a documentary on the river which showed villagers saying they were resigned to their destiny, to breathe air laced with chemicals.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990408/ige08153p.html (578 words)

	NATURAL HERITAGE OF KOZHIKODE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With a length of 169kms, the Chaliyar river flows through Nilambur, Mambad, Edavanna, Areacode, Vazhakkad in Malappuram district and Feroke in Kozhikode district before it joins the Arabian Sea near Beypore.
		The Kadalundi river, also known by the names, Karimpuzha and Oravanpurampuzha, is important from the navigation pint of view.
		The Murad river, also known as the Kuttiady river, originates at the Narikota ranges on the western slopes of the Wayanad hills, a part of Western Ghats.
	www.kozhikode.com /natural.htm (685 words)

	dam-l Struggle to save Chaliyar River in Kerala
		There is a need to find an immediate and permanent solution to the problems that have been haunting the nearly 300,000 people around the factory even if it means closure of the factory and denial of employment to nearly 3,000 others.
		It is about water that has become undrinkable, air that has become unbreathable, a river (Chaliyar) that is dying a slow death.
		After the construction of the bund, toxic effluents had stagnated in the river, turning it into a cesspool of stinking, fl, soupy concoction.
	www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca /lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg00589.html (1700 words)

	Nilambur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nilambur is situated close to the Nilgiri range of the Western Ghats.
		This beautiful town on the bank of the Chaliyar River is at a distance of 70 km from Calicut, 100 km from Ooty (Udhagamandalam) and 40 km from Malappuram town.
		It is located in the eastern side of Malappuram district, Kerala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nilambur (344 words)

	keralaeverything.com - Backwaters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		10 kms South of Kozhikode, located at the mouth of the River Chaliyar is Beypore, a small coastal town and boat building industry which was for centuries, one of the prominent port and fishing harbours of ancient Kerala.
		The river diverges into three waterfalls, creating a snowy spray, which gives the name 'Thusharagiri' which means 'snowy peak'.
		The River Kallai with its old iron bridge is a beautiful sight to behold.
	www.keralaeverything.com /tour/koz.htm (881 words)

	Kerala Tourism - Kozhikode ( Calicut )
		The Chaliyar river, which is one of the major rivers in the state, the Kallai river, the Kadalundi river, the Korappuzha river, the Kuttiadi river and the Mahe river are the important rivers in the district.
		The Kanjirapuzha, a tributary of the Chaliyar river, flowing along the rocky terrain forms attractive waterfalls here and there.
		This tribal tourist spot is 50 km east of Kozhikode and 5 km from Adivaram on the Kozhikode-Mysore State Highway.
	www.kol.to /tourism_cal.htm (889 words)

	The Hindu on indiaserver.com : Rivers and reason
		On the banks of the Chaliyar river at Mavoor in Kozhikode, a public agitation of varying intensity has been going on for over three decades against the pollution caused by the Grasim Industries' plant.
		It is perhaps unknown that the Chaliyar Samara Samiti, constituted largely by citizens who are not beneficiaries of the plant and campaigning for the closure of the Grasim unit at Mavoor, has called for the rehabilitation of workers prior to the provision of compensation for the victims of pollution.
		To speak of red herring from the Chaliyar would be fl humour considering that there is little life left in the river, but `red herring' abounds in the knee-jerk responses to the suggestion that there be an open debate on the question.
	www.narmada.org /archive/hindu/files/hindu.19990814.05142523.htm (1498 words)

	Vatavaran Travels 2004 - Mumbai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Their dream is to see their river come back to life, and fishes leap in the sun.
		A river, her people and a factorythat gobbles all our precious natural resources and pollutes our land lives, from the principal character of this video film.
		When the Brahmaputra River swells in the monsoons, the wildlife of the park both large and small, struggle for their lives against the ravage of floods.
	www.cmsindia.org /vatavaran2004/coimbatore/screningc.htm (2471 words)

	National Institute of Technology Calicut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		southward of Calicut at the mouth of the Chaliyar River, is a small coastal town famous for its country crafts called 'Uru' built by traditional shipbuilders known as Khalasis.
		The cool and crystal clear water in the river Kuthradampuzha there is a tonic for both mind and body.
		Pookode lake is a picnic spot on the Calicut-Mysore-Kollegal National Highway, 45 kms away from NIT, near Lakkidi (the entry point to Wyanad district).
	web.nitc.ac.in /location/sight.html (394 words)

	Life returns to Chaliyar river - Sify.com
		The swelling fish wealth of Chaliyar river may well be the unmistakable signs of its recovery from a 40-year-long spell of toxic effluent discharge.
		For close to 40 years, the double impact was alleged to have caused illnesses ranging from respiratory diseases to skin rashes and cancer in people living near the river.
		This was for allowing toxic effluent to flow from the factory into the Chaliyar river.
	sify.com /cities/othercities/fullstory.php?id=13925212 (515 words)

	NILAMBUR - Renowned for world's First Teak Plantation and for world's First Teak Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Malappuram (Literally, a land atop hills) is situated 50 kms southeast of Kozhikode.
		Bounded by the Nilgiri Hills in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west and Thrissur and Palakkad districts in the south, Malapuram is enriched by three great rivers flowing through it - the Chaliyar, The Kadalundi and the Bharathapuzha.
		Along with historic monuments and diverse natural attractions, a range of cultural and ritual art forms add to its value as a destination worth visiting.
	www.nilambur.com /pages/2thedistrict.htm (351 words)

	Official Web Site of South India Travel Corporation
		land of 44 rivers, Kerala is laced with an intricate network of lagoons, lakes and canals together called the backwaters.
		Beypore - Located at the mouth of the Chaliyar River, Beypore was one of the prominent ports and fishing harbours of ancient Kerala.
		Valiyaparambha - Fed by four rivers and dotted with numerous little islands Valiyaparambha is perhaps the most scenic backwater stretch in Kerala.
	www.southindiatravel.com /sitc/backwater.htm (1195 words)

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