25/07/2026
Burn Patriarchy, Not The Planet
We March for Marshlands
Chennaï's citizens came together to protect the city's marshlands - our natural flood defense,
water source, and home to countless birds and species.
"There's No social justice without environmental
justice"
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Destroying 5,161 acres of wetlands to store 1.65 TMC of water? This isn’t planning—it’s planned ecocide.
Earlier this week, along with representatives from the Kovalam-Nemmeli fishing community, CCAG held a press conference at the Chennai Press Club to expose the fatal flaws in the proposed ₹342.60 crore Mamallan Reservoir project.
The Water Resources Department (WRD) and IIT Madras technical assessments rely on a dangerous assumption: treating the Bay of Bengal merely as a drainage outlet for western runoffs, while completely ignoring ocean dynamics and tidal behavior.
We demand an immediate scrap of the Mamallan Reservoir project and a shift toward genuine, ecologically sound water governance.