Bengaluru: Urbanisation Flooding Problems...
Karnataka, tamil Nadu and telangana are currently battered by floods in India. A large area of our neighboring country pakistan is in the grip of floods. Water has entered homes in Karnataka's capital Bengaluru and people have to resort to hotels to avoid it. The charges for spending one night in hotels are being charged up to 40 thousand rupees. More or less similar stories are coming to be heard from Pakistan. The tragedy of floods is hurting the people on the one hand, while the people of the same areas have started looting instead of helping in this adverse situation. Even during the devastating floods in uttarakhand in 2013, the prices of basic items like milk and eggs were charged manifold. Now the question is, what causes floods?
Is our greed the reason for the floods and their catastrophe reaching on a large scale? Before moving on to other questions, we have to understand that both floods and droughts are part of nature, but why does it become a tragedy? First of all we have to understand why floods happen?
Why does the flood come?
All the natural sources of water, such as rivers, seas, pools, lakes, lakes, canals, puddles, drains etc., when overflow and water starts flowing towards plains or flat areas, then we call it flood. india is basically a country of more water. Barring a few areas or regions of the country, most of the states receive good rains and the funniest thing is that we indians have become accustomed to live and die with it. The causes of kerala floods in august 2018, chennai in december 2015, uttarakhand floods in june 2013, Leh floods in june 2010 and mumbai floods in 2005 were the same.
Flood water is entering the cities
However, in the last two-three decades, the loss of life and property due to floods due to global warming and increasing coverage of cities and concrete forests has started increasing. Earlier, the floods used to go back by submerging the villages on the banks of the rivers for a few days, but in the last two decades, the floods have started spreading their feet in the cities. Sometimes mumbai starts drowning, sometimes ahmedabad and sometimes Bangalore.
Nature does not make things in any fixed time or calendar of any particular time in construction, but man takes minimum time to make his things in the name of development. Actually, the general population grinds in this game of conquering nature and profiteering.
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