The latest city to drench itself is Hyderabad. But why is it that every year we hear one or the other metros suffering from rains? One day Chennai, then Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and today it's Hyderabad. I read a lot of news articles blaming lake encroachments as the major issue. But is that it? On one hand we have water scarcity and droughts during summer, so much that neighbor states are literally fighting for their share of water. Then the dams don't have enough water to produce power at their maximum capacities and we have regular power outages. But a rain that's slightly more than normal puts day to day life out of gear. Why? And what can the common man do , so not to face such inundation again? Is this going to be a recurring phenomenon or just a once in a while story? Please share your views
This is going to be recurring. Only with people and govt participation will solve problems to some extent. what citizens can do.. rain water harvesting.. following disciplines in throwing garbage, composting wet waste.. start using eco friendly items.. unfortunately we are so much dependent on plastic, it requires a complete revolution. Small small efforts make a lot of differences.. like efficient water usage, carrying a bag alwYs to market..eco friendly Ganesha. Government should have longer vision, like saving lakes. If you see in Indian states development happens in one or two cities. Instead of that distribution among cities will reduces resource consumption of single city. This will give more green pasture , excess water will be precipitated. Less population at one place When natural calamities like this happen, there wil be less human/resource loss. .
Its horrible in Hyderabad! All the government had to do was a little pre-planning to conserve the rain water but it doesn't. The result is so bad. I actually saw a few construction workers taking all their belongings and roaming about on the road coz the place under their tent is filled with water. The gutter overflows at every road. The apartments are built so crappily. Few of the apartments have their entrance via cellar and in one such apt which is in the low lying side of the road, the rain filled the entire cellar with water n the entire street is filled with water coz of that one apartment pumping its excess water out! Come next year the same thing might repeat! Nobody bothers specially the government. No rain water harvesting anywhere at all. If anyone does it, its out of their own interest! Forget about rain water harvesting, the roads are constructed everyyear n every rainy season the roads just break. And they call this a cosmopolitan city!
Causes Encroachment and fillup of lakes to use it as land for construction Climate change, global warming Poor drainage and city planning Deforestation, inadequate desilting of reservoirs/lakes Poor mechanisms to store, harvest rainwater The real rootcauses however are - Corruption Lack of political will, lethargy to do what needs to be done It's going to get worse plus more wide-spread, and it's going to be a LONG time before we achieve 1st world quality cities.
fault is with us also we have time for film and awards and news about them only we dont care if government is not doing its duty.only when extreme disaaster strikes we think
@MNR I agree with everything that you said but distributed development is again a debatable topic. I agree that developing tier 2 cities is going to reduce population concentration and that would result in a lot of positives. I was talking to a senior management person about this and he said, most businesses are set up where there's availability of manpower. If the employees are willing to work in a tier 2 or 3 town, businesses would automatically shift there, coz they need people to run the show. The fact is again that employees are not willing to work citing lack of infrastructure. But I don't understand how good their current metro city infra is considering they couldn't manage the rain at the least.
@beautifullife30 Sad about the workers situation. If apartments only flood, where would their huts stand? And coming to that cellar flooding, it's all the mistakes of ghmc and revenue department to have approved such plans. And the builder is of course the first culprit but what is shocking is well educated, knowledgeable people buying flats in such places. Hardly 300 syd land and 6 floors, in proximity to nalas and sold off as hot cakes coz it's cheaper than other areas? Is that all one considers? Unless we take a strong decision not to buy in a place which is not having minimum facilities like a good drainage, connectivity etc. no one can help us unfortunately.
@minn1 True but along with monitoring the Government there are certain things we need to follow. Wondering when we will realize.