Cloud seeding
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to go ahead with the seeding of clouds in the catchment areas of Bhatsa and Vaitarna lakes in September. It also extended the 10 per cent water cut further till September 15. The officials stated that seeding will be carried for 12-15 days in September, on the basis [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s cloud seeding plan is getting delayed, as it is yet to receive the feasibility study on the project. The civic body’s had already asked the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and Mekorot, an Isareli company, which is an expert in cloud seeding experiments, to [...] Continue Reading »
At a time when Mumbaikars are suffering from water cuts due to deficient rainfall, cloud seeding is the means the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking forward to. The BMC has decided to rope in Israel’s national water company, Mekorot for this purpose. The plan is to carry out cloud seeding operations in the areas [...] Continue Reading »
As the water stock in the lakes of the city is far from being sufficient, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is considering cloud seeding in catchment areas in the coming month as an option. Cloud seeding involves spreading either dry ice or silver iodide aerosols on clouds to stimulate rainfall. The civic body states that if [...] Continue Reading »
