Tiruppur

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Tiruppur (also: Tirupur, Tamil: திருப்பூர் Tiruppūr [ tiɾɯp ː ː u r] ) is an industrial city in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu with around 445,000 inhabitants. The until the early 20th century insignificant, predominantly rural location received on 1 December 1947, the incorporation of several surrounding villages the status of a city. Tiruppur is the administrative center of the district Tiruppur.

Tiruppur is on the river Noyyal around 45 kilometers east of Coimbatore. The highest point is 322 meters, the deepest 290 meters above sea level. The city is connected to the broad-gauge railway Chennai - Kochi- Thiruvananthapuram.

Famous is the city as the site of the cotton industry ( knitwear, hosiery, sportswear), which produced mainly in small and medium enterprises for export. About 90 percent of India's cotton knitwear exports come from Tiruppur. Ancillary operations include, among others, dyeing, bleaching factories, printing and embroidery workshops. Suppliers to the apparel industry make zippers, buttons and packaging materials ( polyethylene, cardboard ) ago. Thanks to its economic attraction Tiruppur recorded a rapid increase in population, as the adjacent chart illustrates.

The biggest challenge for the further development Tiruppurs, the lack of drinking water dar. The river Noyyal is by industrial effluents, especially remnants of dyeing and bleaching agents, strongly polluted and leads to the high consumption of industry often low tide. Drinking water must be brought from the more than 50 kilometers away Mettupalayam at the foot of the Nilgiri Hills.