True!! we CANNOT blame the BMC all alone!! It's US to be blamed.
When we look for new homes, we ask for swimming pools, clubs, community hall, Gym and what not?? But, how many of us check if rain water harvesting is in place???
The rains are normal!!! But, the way WE have structured ourselves is too bad and we can't even face these normal rains. I still remember the days of childhood when rains use to continue for 3-4 days together, but we never faced problems as much as we face today.
Think what we have done to the rain water???
Today it pours on to our roof tops, and RUNS to drainages!!! Where is place for MOTHER EARTH to take a SIP of it??? We are applying pathces to the face of Earth.
Having said that, Now what???
We should come up with a system, at ROOT level, which stores rain water. If we start doing that, the SUDDEN WATER LOG can be controlled to a great extent.
Who will do that??? US!!! Every house will have to do that!!! How long will we keep the rain water running away from us???? Why can't we use the rain water for home usage directly by harvesting it in our own buildings?? Does'nt it sound like a fool that we let the rain water runaway and purchase the same from Govt. Is this THE system??
You would think it's a joke!! How'z that possible? Remember the Squirrel story from Ramayana?? So, let's stand and say "I will do my part!!!" That would be a great help to BMC and yes, to us.
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by rahul panwar on Jun 30, 2007 12:43 PM Permalink
bUT GENTLEMAN PLS HAVE A LOOK AT THE VOLUME OF WATER RAINING in mumbai then say if it is possible to store such a high volume.Further rain harvesting will not solve poor problem of bad,narrow roads and poor drainage systems.
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by sivajibhai on Jun 30, 2007 12:51 PM Permalink
The problem here is Mumbai is basically a collection of islands which is artifically combined with concrete to make a single island and plus further concretised to make it a concrete piece of land. Where will the water go? Naturally it will stay until the rain subsides and the tide goes down. Along with this water the entire citys human excreta gets mixed up and Mumbai becomes one big *shitpot*
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by Prakash Nadar on Jun 30, 2007 12:14 PM Permalink
Well, though your comments are good but it is not the solution for bad drain management, it is about using the rain water to its maximum so that we use less water from the resourvoir.
You can not store these massive amount of water to save mumbai from flooding, maybe if you store these amount of water it will give rise to other problems related to mosiquitoes.
Yes, the drain system is a problem because the suburbs drainage system was not well planed and hence we see the problem year after year.
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by sivajibhai on Jun 30, 2007 12:22 PM Permalink
Too many people..too much *shit*...too much kachra...Legislators, corporators, social workers, political workers, goverment servants, municipal servants siphoning of public money....big business small business looting the public...gangsters extorting money and paying off politicians...this is the problem...
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by Samir Sawant on Jun 30, 2007 12:32 PM Permalink
People in buildings can store it in their tanks!! Most of the buildings have one tank which stores the water from BMC and another one for water from Borewell in times of water cut. We should use these borewell water tanks to harvest the rain water.
For people not living in buildings it's even more simpler. Because they store the drinkning water for the day, so all the water they get store in there water tanks is used just for washing.
I'm not asking everyone to follow this, but try and smallest of their effort.
Also, remember, using the rain water is not a compulsion, but storing it, to avoid sudden water logs, in heavy rains is. You can always drain it, later when the rains slow down.
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by sivajibhai on Jun 30, 2007 12:49 PM Permalink
I think you have underestimated the volume of rain and the power of water. Do you even know how much water pours in with just one day of rain? This is not about housing society tanks or whatever. This is about oceans of rain water! You cannot store rain water in housing society tanks to be used for a day or two. Rain water harvesting is a scientific process and this needs to be done in large tracts of land and not in society compounds. You could harvest rain water in a spare tank that your society might have and even if all housing societies in Mumbai store such rain water it would just amount to a fraction of the rain that barsofies on Mumbai in a day.
