Friends, One best solution to bring down flooding in Mumbai is to go for rain harvesting.It should be made mandatory for all buildings to collect rain water and let it in well/Bore through simple sand/charcoal filter.By this you are benifited on many counts-reduction in flooding,increasing the water table,decreasing the salinity of water and indirectly substantial financial savings in terms of road repairs/road damages.In chennai after it was made amndatory in our area we are seeing the benefits ourselves.So let every mumbaite spend less on eating sweets and use that money for rain harvesting!It is good both ways!!
RE:Mumbai Floods
by Miharika on Jun 30, 2007 04:19 PM Permalink
There was some move some time ago to make RWH compulsory, it is the only solution. But for reasons they know best, the Govt has not issued any notification yet. Tax incentives must also be given to manufacturers of RWH equipment to bring the price down.
RE:Mumbai Floods
by Rehman SH on Jun 30, 2007 10:34 PM Permalink
All our planners, thinkers, and we ourselves should try our best to start living in natural conditions, giving a small space for concrete structures to stand and more space for rain water to be imbibed into soil where ever it strikes the ground. If we make hundreds of hectares of land concretized or barren, no doubt we are inviting runoff, consequently floods. At last me have developed to such an extent that we have forgotten to save and protect the three most important elements for our living that - pure air, potable water and unadulterated food. Except this we are getting all other thing on this earth, now. These things nature has provided us. But we destroyed it arrogantly to hurl the flag of material development. At least now everybody should try to give less importance to live in concrete structures and more importance to live in natural locales, that is within our residential or office boundaries. When 75% of living space is covered with vegetation and only and hardly 25% with bloody concrete, the human existence can be guaranteed for the future. Otherwise the human existence itself will be questionable. More planting - less mining, more naturality - less artificiality, is demanding. Try to minimize all kinds of pollution at all three stages like mining, manufacturing and utilization levels, as whatever we are now noticing is due to global warming. The main culprit here is our unending wants, those demand manufacturing, that in turn demand mining.
