I have read all messages from co-mumbaikars and co-indian firends. I agree that the governement needs to do a lot of adminitrative changes to the city, it needs a disaster management and a disaster recovery system. But, there are a lot many things that we can do as mumbaikars.
1. Educating the people around you on hygiene and cleanliness, the importance of drainage system.
2. Forming a neighbourhood watch, making sure there are no illegal constructions, that there are no open drains, the trash bins are closed. (stray dogs are a major issue, thanks to menaka gandhi). This neighbourhood watch cell should be like a civic police monitoring the neighbourhood for civic crimes like littering and unhygiene. United we stand, divided we fall.
3.Educating the slums on the importance of getting pakka house from buliders, rather than keeping their huts.
The government has to think of bigger issues, like water resource management.every year we have floods in one part, while drought in other. if only we could somehow make a canal that could carry the flood waters to a central reservoir, which can then redistributed to areas which don't have irrigation water, like a blood bank.
