Urbanisation - Cities
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- Created on: 28-04-15 16:22
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- Urbanisation - Cities
- Mithi River, Mumbai
- Flood Risk
- Solid waste id dumped here which clogs drains and causes a flood risk
- Heavy rainfall causes all kinds of problems; transport links stopped, deaths, homeless
- Plants then grow on the waste which increases the flood risk further
- Treated as a water waste disposal unit for many years
- 800 million litres of untreated sewerage enter it eeveryday
- Big industries in Mumbai dump untreated industrial waste into the river
- Other waste; food, e-waste, metals are also dumped here. Some are toxic!
- The airport uses it dump untreated oil
- Solutions
- Dredging the river and widening it
- Raising the embankment and using more permeable surfaces.
- Restrictions so that companies cannot dump untreated waste into the river
- Flood Risk
- Mumbai Sewage / Waste
- Solutions
- Put in proper recycling stations with government funding
- Increase the number of public toilets to reduce the amount of human excrement on streets
- Solutions
- sustainable Living/Cities
- Conserves historic environment
- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
- Improves transport links
- Use brownfield Sites
- Involves communities in local decision making
- More green spaces
- Traffic Issues
- Issues
- Air Pollution
- Pedestrians in the road
- Congestion
- Solutions
- Toll roads
- Increasing public transport
- High vehicle capacity/car sharing lanes
- Cycling schemes + Bus lanes
- Flyovers + underpasses
- Impacts
- Expensive to travel
- Health risks, noise and air pollution
- Obstruction of emergency services
- Issues
- Mithi River, Mumbai
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