The water resources in Chennai: Cooum River

Abstract

Chennai was one of the most beautiful cities of India with lots of greens, lake, ponds and rivers.  The most important river that watered Chennai was considered as Adayar, Cooum and the Kosasthaliyar.  But it also had many tanks, and ponds to its credit.  All the important water resources of Chennai is lost forever.  

This paper focus on the main water resource, the Cooum River. It traces the origin its decline and also focus on the restoration projects started from 1967 onwards. But there is no final solution to the retrieval of the water source.