Rail Nagar, near Koyambedu, which has about 2,000 residents, illegally discharges sewage directly into the Cooum, as the ...

The Water Resources Department has desilted and widened a 9-km stretch of the Cooum river between Chetpet and Napier bridge to increase the flood-carrying capacity. In the last few weeks ...

But, it’s not a run-of-the-mill job. His workspace is the Cooum River. When he reaches his ‘office’, Manikandan changes into a Khaki shirt and a lungi, and trudges down a mud-laden pathway ...

It is especially contaminated after the Kumbh Mela, a Hindu religious festival which includes a sacred pilgrimage to the river. Tests showed that biochemical oxygen demand (a measure of organic ...