Every year Mumbai gets flooded and people suffer. Then they forget all about the situation when the season changes. It leads to leptospirosis and death. After the water recedes, mosquitoes breed and it leads to chikungunya, malaria, dengue, and typhoid. Besides the ground floor houses that get flooded, suffer sewer water enundiating their homes, furniture and electrical appliances like fridges, TVs, ACs , washing machines, getting defunct. It is beyond my thinking, as to how they manage to answer nature's call for so many days, when the toilets are flooded too. I have witnessed a ground floor home getting flooded. The bedroom had soaked mattresses and the toilet had excreta floating up and into the other rooms. Sic. So it should be the priority of the concerned municipality to take proper precautions to prevent the flooding. But they blame it on the high tide and the insufficient and outdated drainage systems. Okay, so if everyone is aware of the problems, then why is there no effective solution?
But obviously the high and mighty in this land are not affected directly and so they don't seem to care about the common man's plight.
National Geographic has done a review of the underground 'temple-like' storage tanks of Japan, that help to keep the city of Tokyo, free of flooding. In 2001, Tokyo suffered severe flooding due to heavy rain. And so they built a system of giant underground tunnels, six and a half kilometers long. Each tunnel is ten meters in diameter and it allows the rain water to collect into this space and then be drained methodically into the Edo river.
Our prime minister, Mr.Modi, should borrow this innovative idea from Japan, instead of the Bullet train technology.
But obviously the high and mighty in this land are not affected directly and so they don't seem to care about the common man's plight.
National Geographic has done a review of the underground 'temple-like' storage tanks of Japan, that help to keep the city of Tokyo, free of flooding. In 2001, Tokyo suffered severe flooding due to heavy rain. And so they built a system of giant underground tunnels, six and a half kilometers long. Each tunnel is ten meters in diameter and it allows the rain water to collect into this space and then be drained methodically into the Edo river.
Our prime minister, Mr.Modi, should borrow this innovative idea from Japan, instead of the Bullet train technology.
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