Climate change is getting more and more apparent in India. Some areas have a rain deficit of 33% this year and in the meantime Mumbai is having the highest rainfall since 1974, if you leave out the 2005 floods. The rainfall in the last 24 hours has been recorded at 375.2 mm.
And all that rain and the subsequent waterlogging caused walls to collapse in Mumbai's Malad East and Kalyan and that killed at least 18 people and injured 13 people.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut claimed that the wall collapse in Malad was not the BMC’s failure, and called it an accident.
“It’s not BMC’s failure. It is an accident. It is because of heavy rainfall. There are several illegal constructions in Mumbai and BMC has nothing to do with it,” said Raut to ANI.
In this episode of The Big Story podcast, we talk about why Mumbai is getting waterlogged year after year even without heavy rainfall. Tune in!
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