Why rain water harvesting may be the only solution to Mumbai's water woes

In Mumbai's iconic Shivaji Park, considered the nesting ground for icons like Sachin Tendulkar, cricket pitches are watered with clean treated drinking water every single day.

In the wake of the July 2005 deluge, the fire department decided to learn from its mistakes. Drawing up lofty and elaborate plans was easy no less than six state-of-the-art command centres were to dot the length and breadth of the city.

Mumbai Indians too are on the verge of an exit now after Kolkata Knight Riders were dumped out by rain on Wednesday.

While the city witnessed heavy showers on Monday, sending its residents for cover and bringing vehicular traffic to a standstill, the city's traffic cops, against all odds, managed to keep vehicles moving by standing their ground and directing traffic.

Incessant rains for the second day in a row wreaked havoc in Thane district, cutting off several low lying areas, leaving thousands of people marooned.

Weather in Mumbai: Incessant heavy rain since early Monday morning in Mumbai has left several low-lying areas inundated and affected local train services and thrown normal life out of gear.

After a day of heavy rains - the heaviest of the season - parts of the city and its immediate outskirts are still receiving heavy rainfall.

Mumbai has been hit by the heaviest rain of the season today, throwing rail, road and air traffic out of gear. Local trains are running late, and all flights have also been delayed by 15 to 20 minutes.

After long spells of little or no rain, the city witnessed heavy rains today affecting rail and road traffic. Heavy rains lashed Mumbai today delaying trains, slowing traffic and inconveniencing commuters who stepped out for work.

Worried by the deficient rains this year, Mumbai's civic body has decided to resort to 'artificial rains' at a cost of Rs 6.5 crore, an official said here on Thursday. Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Sitaram Kunte announced the decision even as the city's water collection and storage remained around 30 percent deficient, with the peak monsoon dr...

A summer drought makes a bad situation worse for an Indian economy already crippled by a sharp slowdown in growth, persistent inflation and a politically hamstrung government. Late on Thursday, New Delhi confirmed the first drought in three years as monsoon rains are likely to be less than 90% of the long-term average, dealing a blow to Asia's third-largest economy, w...

Monsoon rains will not be enough to save the country from its first drought in three years, the weather office said on Thursday as it forecast that the El Nino weather pattern should reduce rains again in the second half of the June to September season. Monsoon rains are considered deficient - a drought in layman's terms - if they fall below 90 percent of a 50-year av...

Years of living in Mumbai and working for a 24-hour news channel are sure-shot ways of hating the rain. So naturally, moving to Delhi meant goodbye to the rain madness. I cannot, for a moment, even remotely imagine standing near Milan Subway (which by definition is a low-lying area) and wonder why it's getting flooded.

Water supply to the maximum city may well be hit if the rain gods do not relent soon enough. Reservoirs that supply water to Mumbai throughout the year have not seen a rise in water levels due to poor rainfall.

Even as Mumbai and its fortunes continue to sink steadily with every falling droplet, the mayor and many senior corporators are floating and absorbing ideas in Singapore at a study tour about 'landfill and water management'.

Mumbai witnessed unrelenting rain yesterday; local trains were delayed and flight schedule was hit. But since last night, there has been intermittent rain.

Heavy rains lashed Mumbai and surrounding areas, including Thane and Raigad on Wednesday, disrupting road and rail traffic, officials here said. Although the downpour offered respite from the sultry weather, it affected Mumbai's lifeline, the suburban trains network, with local services running late by 10-15 minutes on the Central Railway and the Harbour Line since m...

Trains on Mumbai's suburban rail network ( Western and Central ) have been running late by around 15 minutes after intermittent rain since last night. Flights out of Mumbai airport too are running delayed by 15 minutes. Three flights have been diverted so far.

In yet another celebrity-related hit-and-run case, 45-year-old Dhananjay Pimple - the driver of Bollywood actor, director and producer Sohail Khan - surrendered to the Bandra police officials an hour after he knocked down a 70-year-old lady near St Andrews Church on B J Road, Bandra (West) at 10.30 pm on Sunday.

The city airport remained shut for operations for around half an hour last evening due to heavy rains and poor visibility, resulting in diversion of 8 flights.

As most of the country awaits the monsoon, heavy rains are lashing Mumbai. It is common for the city's roads to be waterlogged due to rains, but this time even the city's air traffic has been hit.

Actress Priyanka Chopra seems to be enjoying every minute of the Mumbai rains.

The torrential downpours have just begun in the city, and the monsoon menace has already claimed its first victim. Ashwini Satpute, 24, lost her life in a tree-falling incident at Ganpatrao Kadam Marg in Lower Parel.

Despite government agencies claiming that the city was ready to tackle the monsoons this year, the rainfall that started yesterday morning in the suburbs once again proved them wrong. Within just a few hours of rain, water logging was witnessed in the low-lying areas of Andheri subway and Juhu galli.