Water logging
A Delhi High Court bench has given two months time to Delhi government to find out short and long term solutions to the problem of water logging in the city. The government has been asked to look into suggestions from IIT professors to alleviate the water logging faced by citizens. The court held the Delhi [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) began re-carpeting of Gurgaon city roads after rains had caused waterlogging and potholes on the city roads. The impact of rains on the city roads, including those carpeted a couple of months ago, has been highlighted in the press and the authority has promptly reacted to the matter. The [...] Continue Reading »
A Planning Commission committee has recommended the entry of private sector in the delivery of public services in an attempt to improve civic amenities. This includes water and sewage treatment. A majority of cities have poor water supply system due to leakages and poor distribution system. Only half of the garbage gets disposed of and [...] Continue Reading »
Developers have to keep a pace over maintenance of colonies in Gurgaon. After a series of complaints from the resident welfare associations over maintenance, Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has threatened the local developers to take care of the colonies. If not done, then the civic body has alleged it will take away their maintenance [...] Continue Reading »
Mantri Synergy residents are little worried with the water blocked in the apartment basements. The car parking at the basement at D block is filled with water due to rainfall on the New Year eve. December 30, 2011 Chennai witnessed a cyclone rainfall in the surrounding areas of Old Mahabalipuram Road (OMR). Now the residents [...] Continue Reading »
Its tough time ahead for the residents of Millennium city in Gurgaon. Overflowing sewage, poor sanitation and water logging all these are haunting the residents. Sewage disposal lines is yet not connected in private builder areas. It’s quite surprising that even after two decades the master drain project of the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) [...] Continue Reading »
Residents in Nandambakkam, Chennai have been flooded by water flowing from Adyar river. Nearly 50 houses in this colony were flooded following two days of continuous rainfall. The construction of runway across the Adyar river is traced to be the reason for the water-logging, leaving the construction work restrained due to the free flow of [...] Continue Reading »
Can you believe smoke emitting from stagnant water? Just imagine the way roads are maintained in Chennai, they are paving way for major threat and causing tough time to commuters and pedestrians. The short circuit on the roads of Chennai city was traced to be happening in underground electric cable due to stagnant water on the [...] Continue Reading »
As always Mumbai had to face the water logging problems after a heavy downpour recently. The city witnessed heavy rainfall on Wednesday evening in some parts of the city. Santa Cruz received as much as 57.8mm and this caused a lot of inconvenience to the areas near flyover. The rainfall also flooded the subways in places [...] Continue Reading »
Torrential rain fall caused havoc in Coimbatore recently, as life in the city came to a grinding halt because of the subsequent water-logging in streets and sub-ways. Commuters and residents were left stranded for a long time as relief workers toiled hard to bring the situation to normal. The situation in the city turned worse the downpour [...] Continue Reading »
