Professor,
Kodaikanal is one among the less devasted hill stations in the country, under this severe threat of ‘development'. It is one of the South India's finest Hills Station and it is also called the, The Switzerland of the East, The Emerald Set of South, The Chilled Paradise among the Hills, The ‘Princess of the Hills ’and so on. Kodai is situated at an altitude of about 2, 133-m high and covers an area of 21.45-sq-km. Kodaikanal Lake, also known as Kodai Lake is a manmade lake located in the Kodaikanal city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, India. The lake is star-shaped, centrally located in the town of Kodaikanal and is surrounded by lush green hills of the northwestern Palani Hills range, which is the main watershed for the lake. On the basis of various studies carried out, 62 lakes including the Kodaikanal Lake in Tamil Nadu have been identified as polluted and degraded requiring conservation. (Seth, S.M). Therefore this paper proposes to identify the various types of water pollution at kodaikanal and also it attempts to find out the causes for the same and provides suggestion for reducing the water pollution at kodaikanal.
