Mumbai’s Lakes Are 96% Full. BMC Is Keeping the Water Cut Anyway
Mumbai’s seven reservoirs hold nearly 96% of their capacity, but the BMC’s 10% water cut, in place since May, stays until stock is assured through 2027.
Tag: monsoon
Pimpri-Chinchwad’s Pothole Repairs Can’t Outpace the Monsoon
PCMC has fixed 1,609 of 2,164 reported potholes, but temporary patches and relentless rain keep the backlog refilling across the twin township.
Nagpur’s Manish Nagar Underpass Floods Again Days After New Disaster Plan
Manish Nagar underpass flooded again in Nagpur’s latest downpour, days after NMC unveiled a City Disaster Management Plan meant to fix exactly this kind of failure.
Maharashtra Keeps Schools Open Under Red Alert as Monsoon Toll Mounts
IMD issued a red alert for Pune’s ghats and orange alerts for four more districts on July 22, but authorities left schools open, a reversal from three weeks earlier.
Landslide-Hit Pune-Mumbai Rail Line Pushes MSRTC Into Overdrive
A landslide has cancelled about 30 daily Pune-Mumbai trains. MSRTC is adding 200 bus trips a day while crews repair the damaged ghat-section lines.
Mankhurd Chawl Collapse Kills Six, Renews Mumbai’s Monsoon Building Risk
A chawl collapse in Mankhurd killed six people as Mumbai’s monsoon batters old, dilapidated housing stock again. Here’s what it means for residents.
Nagpur’s Narendra Nagar RUB Beats Its Four-Decade Flood Curse
A Rs 9-crore pump-and-sump system helped Nagpur’s most flood-prone railway underpass stay dry through its first real monsoon test, ending a decades-old problem.
Mumbai Manhole Death Exposes Civic Accountability Gap in Monsoon
A commuter’s death in an open Kurla-Sakinaka manhole during Mumbai’s red-alert rains has triggered suspensions and a probe — and revived a decades-old safety question.
Thane’s Monsoon Whiplash: From Worst June Deficit to Red Alert Flooding
Thane district went from a historic June rainfall deficit to a red alert deluge within days, exposing both a dam storage crisis and a scramble in civic flood response.