Panaji, June 4 -- Environmentalists from Belagavi district held a protest march in the city on Tuesday to demand the scrapping of the river diversion project being planned by the state government.

The rally held under the banner of the "Our Water, Our Right" movement stated their feared of the project threatening the water security of the district by diversion of the waters to the Kalasa and the Banduri, two west flowing tributaries of the Mahadayi river (spelt as Mhadei in Goa) to the east flowing Malaprabha river as well as destroy the ecologically sensitive Western Ghats.

"The people of the district especially the western parts of the district have realised that the very region where the project is planned will face the detrimental e...