Mumbai Rains: More Man Made Than Natural?

We are living in an age where expansion and unabated construction is the name of the game.

But we fail to realise that this has distorted the bigger picture of a sustainable and safe existence.

With ever-rising temperatures due to global warming and unplanned construction in the dream city of Mumbai- we have ended up with more slum dwellers than proper settlements.

Commercial construction of roads for transport, release of wastewater, untreated sewage waste, and chemicals in the water bodies are other causes.

Airports have been built and sea links constructed to ease movement. Undoubtedly, this has interfered with nature and threatened the safety of the inhabitants in turn.

Another and one of the most avoidable causes of heavy rains and natural imbalance is the lack of sufficient and efficient infrastructure.

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Mumbai has a drainage system capable of only 25 mm of rainfall-a mark which the actual rain often crosses, leading us to flooded roads and threatened lives in Mumbai.

Change is essential, both on the practical and thought leadership levels, to handle such situations with ample preparedness beforehand.

The message is clear-If man wants to lie in the lap of nature, there is no better way then befriending it.