BENGALURU: Highly polluted water containing heavy metals and carcinogenic substances like Mercury, Lithium, and Pyrene is flowing into the Manchanabele Dam, posing a severe health risk to nearly 40 villages in Magadi Taluk. Water activist Nirmala Gowda, associated with Paani.Earth, an organisation focused on sustainable river management, highlighted alarming findings from a study on the sedimentation areas of Thippagondanahalli Reservoir …