WHY CHENNAI IS SEEING ITS WORST FLOODS Why Is Chennai Under Water While officials at the India Meteorological Department have said the exceptionally strong El Niño, along with a rare “coincidence of various factors”, has resulted in the heavy rain, there’s no denying that Chennai has failed in maintaining an effective storm water drainage system.
In times when the city, and its suburbs, is being pounded with rainfall exceeding normal limits by over three times, a drainage system that isn’t functional, creeks and culverts that are blocked due to excessive dumping of garbage as well as the administration’s failure to ensure timely desilting. Cooum River, Adyar River and Buckingham Canal, which serve as the main rain water drain for the city, have all seen encroachments. In fact, only in September this year, the Madras High Court threatened to summon state’s chief secretary over differences in opinion between the government’s own departments Chennai floods: Decoding the city's worst rains in 100 years
Chennai, drops relief materials for stranded locals #ChennaiFloods. Pray for Chennai Rain Causes Flooding PHOTO VIDEO Flood Causes Fury In Chennai it's time to be humans by helping each other when nature tests our integrity. I request everyone to help the needed in the best ways possible.am gonna do mine A PIL was filed by the Kasturba Nagar and Indira Nagar Residents Welfare Forum, seeking the removal of encroachments on the Canal Bank Road along the Buckingham Canal. In their petition, they said the encroachments were not slum dwellings but concrete structures directly affecting the flow of the canal.
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