Summary
This extra water helps farmers in the Cauvery river area grow rice.
More water is being sent because the farmers need it for their fields.
Key Points
3 points1
Mettur Dam is sending out 12,000 cubic feet of water each second.
2
The water helps grow a special kind of rice called samba.
3
Farmers are getting ready to plant their rice fields.
New Words to Learn
6 wordsMettur Dam
A large wall that holds back water and can let it out when needed.
Cauvery river
A big river in India that gives water to many farms.
cubic feet per second
A way to measure how much water moves, like how many small boxes of water pass by each second.
irrigation
Giving water to plants so they can grow.
delta
The flat land where a river spreads out before reaching the sea.
samba
A kind of rice that farmers grow.
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