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Kanyakumari District , named after the goddess ‘Kanyakumaari’, lies at the southernmosttip of peninsular India where the Indian Ocean ,the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal confluence. This is one of the smallest districts in the state of TamilNadu. It isbounded between 770-05’ and 770 -36’ of the eastern longitude and 80 -35’ of the northern latitude. The soil is mostly loamy and assumes sandy or clayey character dependingon the accumulations of wash on the surface. This District has a pleasant climate and has a unique advantage of both the South-West as well as North-west monsoons. The rainfall is generally very highin the northern parts of the district and considerably low in the southern part of the District. A river is a body of water that originates high in the mountains, flows over land a long channel. As it flows it receives more water from rills, brooks, streams and also from rainfall. All these that carry water to a river are called tributaries, and they form the river system. The regiondrained by a river system is called the drainage basin. The rain water soaks the ground and accumulates as ground water. Some of this groundwater seepsinto the river system and keeps water flowing in most rivers even during dry periods. Such a river is known as “perennial” which is normally having a “healthy watershed”. In dry regions there is not always a flow of water andthey dry up in some seasons which are known as intermittent rivers. A watershed is an area from which run off resulting from precipitation flows past a single point into a large stream,river, lake or ocean. The terms catchments, river basin, drainage basin, headwaters are used in the same sense.Pazhayar, Paraliar,Kothaiyar, Valliyar, Pechiparai, Perunchani, Chittar I, Chittar II, Kodayar Dam and Pandyan Dames are the water resources system in Kanayakumari District.

Perennial, Normally, intermittent, Northern parts, loamy, accumulations

"WATER RESOURCES SYSTEM IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no.567-572, June-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806324.pdf

"WATER RESOURCES SYSTEM IN KANYAKUMARI DISTRICT", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 6, page no. pp567-572, June-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1806324.pdf