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Mumbai nearly drowned!! and what has still been done? - Excuses!!!!
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by kaizadbhamgara | July 13, 2007 at 09:49 am
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Mumbai nearly drowned!! and what has still been done? - Excuses!!!!
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I am tired of writing about what is wrong with the civic administration here. Yes I agree its hard to manage the most populated city in the country that has the world's second highest population, and is soon expected to overtake China, and thus become the world's most populated country, but how much of negligency can we permit?
I hope these shocking pictures open the world's eyes to how bad the situation really is, and the level of changes that are needed here! I know this is Journalistically the worst article I must have ever written, but as a citizen, it's probably one that should I have written a long time back! For God's sake, when are things going to be done, and when will the administration, people, the goverment, everyone - just STOP making excuses, how long can a few people keep screaming against all this, the only thing that happens is our throat goes sore, and the people who should be affected are thick skinned enough not to even care! All that they can say when one complains about anything is that 'they are working on it" or they will "review it" or some other reason full of crap. For heaven's sake people, it's time we do something and make a few changes, and that starts with being active citizens.
The problem is lack of infrastructure, or it's lack of existence, and just the age old problem - lethargic and uninterested people who are simply not motivated enough to make a difference, being the positions of power, hence they are not bothered to make any initiative to make any positive efforts!
The damage caused by these floodings are tremendous, huge financial losses have already been reported, and the rumours of high loss of human life are also refusing to die out. The contamination in the water that flooded the city is also another reason of worry, and it's aftermath might produce several diseases / and / or / epidemics.
How long is all I ask, for how long do we have to bear this, how long before changes are made... in the end, we need everyone to rise together.. how much can a few people do? a lot I shall actually say.. but if we need changes NOW - we need to act NOW, ALL of us, together!!
PS - I hope this article ruffles a few feathers, and we finally get to see some changes in this city!
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at 10:00 on July 13th, 2007
kaizadbhamgara, these pics are amazing. The challenge seems great but someone needs to take responsibility and fix this! What is the cause of the problem, just infrasrtucutre weakness?
at 10:01 on July 13th, 2007
at 10:03 on July 13th, 2007
It's shocking to see the state of those streets, and there's so little evidence of help from the government.
at 10:04 on July 13th, 2007
These photos, kaizadbhamgara! That's incredible...thank you for posting this. You continually do fantastic work for us; please keep it up!
at 14:15 on July 13th, 2007
When were these pictures taken?
at 16:13 on July 13th, 2007
at least you have the "king of radio"!
at 20:14 on July 13th, 2007
The problem for Bombay is that at high tide, much of Bombay is below sea level. So when it rains, and it really can rain in Bombay, there is simply no way to drain the water. They have to wait for low tide to open the sluice gates and let the water out. So blame the administration as much as you want, but they really don't have a feasible way to solve your problem. They would need humongous pumps, I mean really humongous when you work out the amount of water that needs to be drained out. I don't think such large pumps even exist. And these pumps would be idle 364 days a year, and in use just 1 day a year.
So get yourself a small inflatable boat and enjoy the rainy day :)
at 01:56 on July 14th, 2007
Dearest navisingh, First of all, let me tell u how much i appreciate u viewing my story and i quite like ur last suggestion myself :)
the problem is that we cannot allow ourselves to lie helpless like this and state that those pumps will be used just once a year, I'm sure u must hav noticed that the BMC ( bombay municipal corporation) starts drainage cleaning at the begining of the rainy season, and after cleaning the drain, puts all the garbage and muck right besides the drain opening, and drives away, stating another body will come and pick up the garbage, The next thing u knw, it rains and all the garbage goes bak into the drains, and well if ur curious, the other "truck to pick up the garbage " never does come.
According to NGO's, if the drains in mumbai are kept clean, just this mere act reduces the chances of flooding in the city by a whooping 44% now we dnt exactly need to invest in boats, if just keeping the drains can do so much for us :)
at 00:27 on July 14th, 2007
kaizadbhamgara, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Any chance that you could get more solid facts and details in this story? This isn't exactly a story that's being covered by the mainstream media so it would be very refreshing to get more details regarding what has been done (or not been done) in Mumbai. I am very interested to see more about this!
at 02:09 on July 31st, 2008
I really love mumbai like anything and i dont want it to get drowned