Mumbai's Natural Calamity: Rain and Suffering – 2005

摘要

The heavy rainfall in Mumbai on 26th July 2005 had created water logging in and around Mumbaincausing disruption of transport, overflowing of water channels on the road; thereby flooded water in all the lownlying areas reached the houses, hospitals, shopping complexes, offices, institutes and industries. This had led tondisruption of the normal lives of people. The people and animals had also become victims of this disastrous rain. Itnwas reported that many people lost their lives due to flood water and falling of debris in some housing areas. Lots ofnproperties have been damaged due to heavy flooded water in and around Mumbai. The sewage pipes and waternpipelines due to heavy force were also damaged in some areas which resulted into faecal contamination in thendrinking water causing diseases like leptospirosis, gastroenteritis, dysentery, diarrhea, jaundice, eye conjunctivitisnetc. The huge solid waste was also generated due to mixing of garbage, household damaged wastes, biomedicalnwastes, industrial wastes and market wastes etc. The pathogens from dead animals and human bodies also reachednwater bodies. This might have created new borne pathogens as a source for water-borne diseases. The water-bornendiseases were a problem in Mumbai because of severely contaminated water. The physicochemical characteristicsnof water were assessed in different areas.nMumbai’s this disaster occurred due to down pouring of rain which has made the authority to make the propernplanning for drainage/water pipelines/road construction, housing and shopping complexes and disaster management,nin case of emergency, for this cosmopolitan city before the next rainy season begins. The scenario that occurrednduring the heavy rainfall on 26th July 2005 and thereafter for a couple of days has been reported in the present paper.