New Delhi: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) Director Sunita Narain Thursday said that urban sprawls of India, including Srinagar (Kashmir) Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkatta have not paid adequate attention to the natural water bodies that exist in these cities.
Each of lakes of these cities including Srinagar and Chennai has a natural flood discharge channel which drains the spillover. But we have built over many of these water bodies, blocking the smooth flow of water. We have forgotten the art of drainage. We only see land for buildings, not for water, she said.
Narain said that scientific research has already linked intense weather phenomena to a changing climate. The IPCCs 5th Assessment Report clearly says that frequency and intensity of such type of excessive rainfall events will increase in future. The Germany-based Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, in its 2015 study, points out that of the total incidents of excessive rainfall events that happened in the last 30 years, 12 per cent can be contributed to climate change. A 2006 study by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) in Pune has said that extreme precipitation events were increasing in frequency and intensity in India during the period 1950 to the 2000s.
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