Mandya: The Irrigation Department has extended the ban on using water from Shimsha River for drinking purposes as it is heavily polluted owing to explosion of a digester at NSL Sugars at Koppa near Maddur.
The river was polluted by more than 80-lakh litres of potassium-laced poisonous water that spilled from the NSL Sugar Factory at Koppa of Maddur taluk where a boiler exploded on Nov.20. The hazardous spent wash contaminated nearby fish ponds, river Shimsha, canals and several low-lying areas, besides spreading over of farmlands.
