<p>Experts have suggested several measures to reduce flooding in the city, which has become an all-too-common sight after each spell of rain.</p>.<p>They recommended removing blocks and re-establishing interconnectivity of lakes, protecting valley zones and buffer regions of the wetlands, besides urging civic authorities not to constrict or concretise natural drains.</p>.<p>“What we saw on Tuesday should be a wake-up call for the government. The state government cannot run away from its responsibility by allocating grants for projects (re-modelling of drains by building cement walls) that do not solve the problem,” Prof T V Ramachandra of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, said.</p>.<p>Pointing to the intensifying rainfall, Prof Ramachandra said: "Over 100 mm of rainfall is being recorded in just an hour, which was earlier spread over a month. This is going to be common.”</p>.<p>Srinivas Reddy, former director of Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Center (KSNDMC), urged the government to aggressively push for structural and non-structural measures to combat urban flooding.</p>.<p>“The run-off quotient in Bengaluru is more than 80% due to urbanisation and lack of ground for water percolation,” he said. He suggested measures like construction of recharge wells, rainwater-harvesting facilities (structural), land-use regulations, and flood forecasting (non-structural), etc.</p>
<p>Experts have suggested several measures to reduce flooding in the city, which has become an all-too-common sight after each spell of rain.</p>.<p>They recommended removing blocks and re-establishing interconnectivity of lakes, protecting valley zones and buffer regions of the wetlands, besides urging civic authorities not to constrict or concretise natural drains.</p>.<p>“What we saw on Tuesday should be a wake-up call for the government. The state government cannot run away from its responsibility by allocating grants for projects (re-modelling of drains by building cement walls) that do not solve the problem,” Prof T V Ramachandra of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, said.</p>.<p>Pointing to the intensifying rainfall, Prof Ramachandra said: "Over 100 mm of rainfall is being recorded in just an hour, which was earlier spread over a month. This is going to be common.”</p>.<p>Srinivas Reddy, former director of Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Center (KSNDMC), urged the government to aggressively push for structural and non-structural measures to combat urban flooding.</p>.<p>“The run-off quotient in Bengaluru is more than 80% due to urbanisation and lack of ground for water percolation,” he said. He suggested measures like construction of recharge wells, rainwater-harvesting facilities (structural), land-use regulations, and flood forecasting (non-structural), etc.</p>
