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How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control

BBC

How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control Landprocess The green roof of Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand is designed to protect from flooding, cool temperatures and grow crops Parks, roofs and riverbanks mimicking the long-used agricultural form are helping Asian cities absorb, hold and purify rainwater. Getty Images Rice terraces have been used for thousands of years …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Sewage & rainwater flood Tiruneermalai roads in Chennai

New Indian Express

CHENNAI: For the residents of Tiruneermalai’s Ranga Nagar, rain is nothing short of a nightmare. Every time it pours, they get into a high alert as rainwater mixed with the polluted water from Naatu Canal leads to flooding in this low-lying area. Because of garbage and sewage dumping, the capacity of the canal meant to take surplus water from Tiruneermalai …

Chennai Water Canal

1 year, 3 months ago

Tackling Bengaluru’s flash floods with Sponge City systems, underground storage tanks

The Hindu

Year after year, flash floods have played havoc with Bengalureans, particularly those in and around low-lying pockets. A big storage problem “Bengaluru has a storage problem, not a water problem,” notes architect Naresh Narasimhan, who had conceptualised K-100, a joint project by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board to transform the Rajakaluves into clean …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Maharashtra weather update: IMD issues Orange alert for several districts, rainwater enters Yavatmal houses

India TV News

Maharashtra weather update: The India Meteorological Department has issued an orange alert for heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places for Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg districts for tomorrow. Rainwater enters houses in Yavatmal: With heavy rains lashing Maharashtra's Yavatmal on Friday night, many residential areas in the district were inundated, and water also entered several houses on …

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1 year, 11 months ago

California storms feed systems set up to capture rainwater

Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — As Californians tally the damage from recent storms, some are taking stock of the rainwater captured by cisterns, catches, wells and underground basins — many built in recent years to provide relief to a state locked in decades of drought. Pestrella, the county’s public works chief, said the stormwater captured over the past few weeks could be …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Karnataka to take merciless action against properties blocking flow of rainwater

Hindustan Times

A day after many areas here were inundated due to heavy rain and breached lake bunds, the Karnataka government on Wednesday decided to "mercilessly" remove properties blocking rainwater flow. We have told the officers to be merciless while implementing the drive without attending to any phone calls," Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka told reporters after a high-level meeting, chaired by …

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2 years, 6 months ago

High Court Grants Time To Centre & Delhi Govt For Filing Status Reports In Suo Moto Case On Lack Of Rainwater Harvesting Efforts In City

Live Law

The Delhi High Court on Monday granted four weeks time to the Centre, Delhi Government and other authorities for filing status reports in a suo moto case concerning the issue of lack of rainwater harvesting efforts taken by the departments in the city. A division bench comprising of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad ordered thus:"Respondents are …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Kolkata: Heavy rains flood hospitals; several life-saving drugs, oxygen cylinders damaged

India TV News

Treatment of patients at a few hospitals in Kolkata including the state-run SSKM Medical College and Hospital were badly affected while life-saving drugs at the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine were damaged as rainwater flooded portions of the medical establishments on Monday, officials said. The Outpatient department of gynaecology section as well as the ticket counter on the ground floor …

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5 years, 3 months ago

Hyderabad drops flood bypass project

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: The urban flooding bypass project, recommended by Jawarharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad experts to save commuters about Rs 3,000 crore per annum, is in cold storage. GHMC officials said the shelving of a proper storm water network would res-ult in inundation and severe road damage throughout the year due to the unseasonal rain. The experts felt that conventional ways …

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