Bengaluru: Minister for Tourism and Environment C.P. Yogeeshwar (CPY) has made a startling revelation that most of the rivers in Karnataka were polluted as waste water is relentlessly let out and if the same situation continues, the State may face many epidemics.
Addressing a press conference in Bengaluru yesterday, the Minister said that even the tender coconut grown in Cauvery and Krishna River belts have lost its taste due to rampant pollution. Water available from all the 17 river basins in Karnataka are filled with industrial effluents and are unfit for drinking purposes, he said.
