Warning system.

I remember there was a warning issued for a flood possibility in Delhi and the adjoining areas due to water released from upstream catchments area, lot of people along with there belonging were evacuated and relocated but by God’s grace no untoward happened.

There are severe floods in Andra, Karnataka and Goa and hundreds of causalities and millions rupees damage has been reported. If a warning was issued for capital why this warning couldn’t got initiated for the affected states? The state government could have better anticipated and prepared for systematic release of waters based on the daily increase of water level in the respective reservoirs and this situation could have been avoided.

In Andhra Pradesh, at least 37 people have died in the floods, and lakhs are in relief camps across the state.The death toll is expected to be higher as the administration currently doesn't have spare officials to count the dead. Thousands are reported missing, lakhs are still stranded. Overall, at least 18 lakh people in nearly 400 villages of Andhra Pradesh have been affected by the floods. 180 villages in Kurnool, 89 in Mahbubnagar, 100 in Guntur and 22 in Nalgonda are in bad shape due to the flood waters.

In karnataka in the last 24 hours, the number of dead in the Karnataka flood havoc has gone up from 130 to 170.Bijapur, Bagalkote, Raichur, Koppal and Gulbarga districts remain the worst affected. In Bijapur alone, more than 17 villages are marooned and over 10,000 people have been left homeless.

Disaster management or Recovery

Source: http://www.ndtv.com/

Rain Rain went away

Many of us will agree and must have observed that this year Rain God is upset and not in a mood to shower there blessings. I recently visited Pune and places around pune and interacted with lot many peoples (because of my talkative nature) and a conversation with them reveled that there is hardly any rain and whatever shower has been there are far below the average rainfall.

It is almost mid of July and the cities in and around pune have hardly got 2-3 spell of rains and that too for a short duration.

The situation is no more different in states like Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh.

It is almost one month to the onset of South West Monsoon over Andhra Pradesh but there is no sign of rains as empty clouds are hanging around with yielding any rains. As the state recorded a huge deficit of more than 50% deficit in the rain fall in the month of June, serious crisis is looming large on the horizon and specter of drought is staring at the state.

The desert state of Rajasthan has recorded 25 per cent less rainfall than normal this year.
The Haryana government drew up a contingency plan for farmers, as the situation looks grim with monsoon playing truant. The contingency plans chalked out by the government include alternate crops which do not require much water and new production technologies.
The fitful monsoon has created havoc in India's biggest city, Mumbai. Lack of rainfall in catchments has created a critical water shortage. Mumbai authorities last week imposed a 30 per cent cut in town water and have stopped supplying water to non-essential services such as swimming pools.

If things doesn’t change sharply the entire nation will be draught affected, while economic growth has dipped from 9 per cent to 6 per cent in the past 12 months, rural demand has helped underpin the economy.

But a below-par monsoon could wipe a percentage point from India's growth rate this year.

Sources:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/
http://www.theage.com.au/
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/drought-crakced-earthGETTY.JPG