Unplanned metropolitan growth and potential risks !
The city continues to grow in an unprecedented manner. A Mumbai resident will constantly see the network of skyscrapers spreading around at a high speed, flyovers being built at various places and roads being dug up everywhere. The topic of today's article is about the unplanned growth of Mumbai and how administration should carefully plan the basic facilities required for this humongous growth. Water supply The first thing that comes to mind is how the administrators are going to meet the ever growing water needs of this city? Everything will work well only if the catchment area that supplies water to Mumbai receives proper rainfall and all futuristics water supply schemes planned (keeping this growing population in mind) are completed on time. But if unfortunately we face a year when the rain in the catchment area fail to meet average by significant margin then it is likely going to result in emergency like situation. By giving priority to the water supply of M...