Mysuru/Mandya: How often do you see children playing cricket in a canal that supplies water to thousands of hectares of fertile land? Some children were found playing inside the Visvesvaraya Canal (Chikkadevaraya Canal) at Achappanakoppalu near Srirangapatna yesterday, reminding us of a grim situation that we are in where Karnataka is staring at a drought for the third consecutive year.
Lack of rain along the Cauvery basin has left canals dry and all hopes of farmers in Mandya and Mysuru rest on the all-party meeting that has been called to discuss Cauvery issue in Bengaluru on Aug. 14. The agrarian community is hoping that they would get water at least to drink and feed their livestock though they have launched a series of protests for water to their kharif crops.
