Why the lashes rain

“Who is responsible for this confusion?”

Recently, the financial capital of India recently found thousands of residents along Mumbai closed, soaked and annoying.

Heavy rains brought the city to stop, and it was even started to start Monsoon even. Roads turned into rivers, vehicles appeared in the neighborhoods, and in the neighborhoods were paid in the water.

Even the newly established underground metro station could not withstand heavy rains because the station viral was flooded with water filled with water.

The flood from Monsoon once again exposed the fragile infrastructure of the city again and caused widespread spread in social media.

Brihanmumbai Municipality Corporation (BMC), one of the richest civilian organizations responsible for the protection of India’s mumbai infrastructure, initially accused the problem of drainage and debris blocked by the construction of the metro, The Hindustan Times reported the newspaper.

After the criticism, the BMC set the water irrigation pumps in flood-prone areas and began cleaning the waste from evacuation to prevent further water. But the movement for many inhabitants came very late.

The crisis is not new – nor is unique to Mumbai.

From the northern Bengaluru In the south, the largest cities in India are flood in every monsoon season. The collapse of roads does not carry, the infrastructure is overwhelmed and falls on a stop.

Experts accuse the years of rapidly unplanned urbanization, weak infrastructure and environmental indifference as root causes of this problem.

“Urban expansion pace, especially the evolution of infrastructure supported in the water and drainage systems,” said Dikshu Kukreja, a architect and city planner Dikhu Kukreja.

“Many cities rely on outdated systems made decades ago.

Experts should be taken into account when unique problems and unique problems of each city in each city and unique problems and factors such as geography, population and climate.

India will usually start in June, and the monsoon season, which lasted until September, receives 80% of its annual rain.

Monsoon is very important for agriculture and millions of Hindu farmer’s livelihoods. They trust seasonal shows in parts of the country where the correct irrigation canals are not.

However, experts say that climate change is wrong weather – nerves, flash floods and droughts, excessive heat-related droughts – a more regular event that directly affects people.

This year, Monsoon came early in the south of India, which is unprepared for power.

“A depression in the Eastern Central Arab Sea, which is forced to draw Monson, Mahesh Palawat, Meteorological and Weather Forecast company SkyMet is a vice president of meteorology and climate change.

In Delhi, Minto Bridge became a symbol of the city’s annual monsoon chaos. Almost every year, after heavy rain, a bus or truck cling to the bottom of the bridge – an image that stresses the city’s city floods.

This year, Delhi, Indian Weather Department, since 1901, since 1901, has been the hottest since 1901.

Damaged many residents’ property.

According to the media, at least four people were killed and more people were injured in one of the two serious storms hit the city in May.

Meanwhile, Bengaluruda, more than 2,000 km (1,240 miles) from the capital, the problem seems different, but the root cause is the same.

Bengaluru, who has already helped to control the rain water, saw many of the many of this water bodies. Their locations in their places are sensitive to susceptible to the flood of housing complexes, business hubs and roads.

“Bengaluru consists of three main valleys flowed naturally. Most of the city lakes are located in these valleys,” a lake protection activist explains Ram Prasad.

These valleys were originally identified as non-construction areas, but over the years, he said, and then changes in the law allowed to establish infrastructure projects in the region and then changes were made.

“When it turns the lakes – traditionally exits flood bumps – there are no places in the built-in areas. Thus, today they saw in Bengaluru, as a result of poor urban planning.”

Mr. Prasad, Bengaluru, who is sitting on a hill, shows that the flood and the current situation is completely made by the person.

The violation of the building norms, especially the construction of storm waters drains or setting them directly on them, he said that only things worse.

Meanwhile, according to Mumbai geography, it faces natural problems. For example, many parts of Mumbai are lying down and close to the sea, it is also more sensitive to those who cause floods during heavy rain and high tides.

However, experts say this is more deteriorating: “Building on floods where natural barriers are against floods and drains the water.

“Section is systematic – often begins with planning that does not take into account future climate change, exacerbated by poor execution and combined with poor execution of the rules,” Mr. Kukerja. “Political will is often reactive – responds to disasters rather than investing in long-term sustainability.”

This is not just a big city problem. If small towns are not more, they often suffer the same extent.

Weekend, At least 30 people died After heavy rain in the northeastern provinces of India, floods occurred. Tens of thousands were affected by rescue operations on the road.

So can something be done to prevent this?

“Yes,” Mr. Kukreja says, but if a long-term, part of a coordinated strategy.

It offers to use mapping and real-time sensors to identify high-risk zones and warning communities. Predictive models can also help the authorities plan better answers.

“However, single technology should be united, but to be combined with the participation of responsible management and society,” he said.

India’s cities need only irrigation pumps and fast adjustments to withstand rains. Before the damage is over, they need to plan for forward thinking.

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