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This week's floods in Chennai brought back memories of the extensive damage caused by floods eight years ago which killed around 290 people. Some residents questioned the ability of the city's ...
Actor Vishal expressed his disappointment with the flood situation in Chennai and criticized the Chennai Mayor and other authorities for not building adequate infrastructure to handle the floods. [66] Ministers of the state government and elected representatives were heckled by the angry public during their visits at various places in Chennai.
A 2015 CAG report revealed that a diversion channel from the Buckingham canal near Okkiyum Maduvu to the sea (a drain project under the JNNURM scheme) could have saved South Chennai from flooding; the government, however, dropped the ₹1 billion scheme, which, had it been completed, would have drained floodwater from southern neighbourhood at ...
By 9 November, five people had died. Residents in north Chennai had to deal with knee-deep flooding, and some had already resorted to swimming pools and other available options to avoid getting wet. Central Chennai was the hardest hit in the city, as two canals and one river overflowed in the area, causing major flooding.
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The 2019 Chennai water crisis was a water crisis occurring in India, most notably in the coastal city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu. [1] On 19 June 2019, Chennai city officials declared that "Day Zero", or the day when almost no water is left, had been reached, as all the four main reservoirs supplying water to the city had run dry.
South Africa's major port of Durban, where operations were disrupted by severe flooding last week, is now functional and a backlog of thousands of containers will be cleared within five to six ...
Severe flooding also occurred in Sikkim and Meghalaya, with intense river flow destroying roads and bridges. [ 7 ] For days, the swollen waters of the Brahmaputra river flooded Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve, resulting in the tragic death of over 200 wild animals, including ten endangered rhinos, who drowned in the deluge. [ 8 ]