Natural Disasters

Mumbai marooned: an enquiry into Mumbai floods 2005 - final report

July 26, 2005 has gone down as a day no Mumbaikar will forget. A record 994 mm (37.2 inches) of rain within 24 hours, widespread flooding and the loss of lives and property, the virtual shutdown of the

Publication Date: 
01/08/2006
Conservation Action Trust
Tags:
Health Effects, Drainage, Floods, Disaster Management, Housing, Sanitation, Rehabilitation, Mumbai
India

 Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste

Kanjumarg will aggravate Mumbai s waste crisis

Publication Date: 
14/07/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
River Pollution, Land Pollution, Mangroves, Waste Disposal, India, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Mithi, Toxic Wastes
Water Resources

 Mumbai's water supply earns rural ire

people from about 104 villages of Thane district near Mumbai have threatened to break valves of the pipeline supplying water to the metropolis and bring the city's water supply to a halt. The reason: all their water sources have been completely diverted to Mumbai and they are facing acute drinking water and irrigation crisis.

Publication Date: 
14/06/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Resources, Water Distribution, Rural Water Supply, Urban Water Supply, Water Supply, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Thane (D)
Biodiversity

 Open floodgates

Will mere slum removals along Mithi stop Mumbai floods?

Publication Date: 
30/05/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Encroachments, Floods, Slum Demolition, Mumbai
India

 Boon or bane?

WB walks out of Mumbai urban transport project

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Transport, World Bank, India, Maharashtra, Mumbai
India

 Work matters

Proximity to workplace determines housing decisions of slum dwellers, finds a new study

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Jyotsna Puri
Down to Earth
Tags:
Housing Standards, Slums, World Bank, India, Mumbai
Biodiversity

 No more slumming

Builders may 'get big bonanza in Dharavi

Publication Date: 
14/03/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Slums, Slum Upgrading, Rehabilitation, Asia, Maharashtra, Mumbai
India

  Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai

Pramod N Bagud pnb , a pediatrician, and Manoj K Ved mkv , a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15 hectare dumpsite in Mumbai. They related terrible stories of the area s w

Publication Date: 
14/01/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Asthma, Respiratory Diseases, Waste Disposal, Health Care, Child Health, Mumbai
Industry

 Offloaded

Responsibility to dispose Mumbai s construction waste

Publication Date: 
14/01/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Construction Industry, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Mumbai, Waste Recycling
Air Pollution

The impact of policies to control motor vehicle emissions in Mumbai, India

This paper examines the impacts of measures to reduce emissions from passenger transport; specifically, buses, cars and two-wheelers. These include the possibility of converting diesel buses to compressed natural gas (CNG), as the Indian Supreme Court required in Delhi, which would necessitate an increase in bus fares to cover the cost of pollution controls. It also considers raising the price of gasoline, which should affect the ownership and usage of cars and two-wheelers, as well as imposing a license fee on cars, to retard growth in car ownership.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2005
Akie Takeuchi, Maureen Cropper, Antonio Bento
The World Bank
Tags:
Pollution Control, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, RSPM (PM 10), CNG, Public Transport, Cars, India, Delhi, Mumbai, Two Wheelers

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