Under water

 

The photographs of flood-hit Mumbai are distressing. It is also the plight some other cities across India face — going under water during the monsoon after a summer of hardship. This is mainly due to an inadequate number of storage reservoirs and tanks thanks to greed of people, realtors and politicians who have the least concern for the environment. We should learn from the past where rulers successfully managed floods and drought. There were also regular desilting measures.

Kshirasagara Balaji Rao,

Hyderabad