Now that everyone is fighting against the flooding of Mumbai, I wonder if anyone has thought of why it happened in the first place. Apart from the usual 'excuses' of high-tide coupled with heavy rains, we seem to forget that the major roads and housing complex construction activities in the past few years have led to indiscriminate tree-felling everywhere. With no roots to hold the sil, the heavy rain has caused soil erosion. The top-soil silt must have jammed the drainage systems. Any takers for this theory?
