Despite low levels, water continues to be drawn illegally from Bhavanisagar dam, allege farmers in Erode

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Despite low levels, water continues to be drawn illegally from Bhavanisagar dam, allege farmers in Erode

Farmers and farmers associations say a few owners of large farms have laid pipelines to illegally draw water from the dam to supply to their lands; the district is reeling under a water shortage and all other farmers have been told water cannot be supplied for irrigation