WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:03.640 In today's episode, we look at why Mumbai had to 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:07.799 pump more than four thousand crore leaders of drinking water 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:11.160 into the sea and whether the city could have stored 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:14.800 or reused it. We also talk about an Air India 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:18.960 flight from Foke to Delhi where sudden turbulence left seventeen 6 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:23.519 passengers and crew members injured. But we begin today by 7 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.000 talking about how the RSS is now planning a major 8 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:34.719 outreach effort aimed at gen z Hi. I'm Atchasharma and 9 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.520 you're listening to three Things the Indian Express new show. 10 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:47.359 RSS chief Mohun Bagbat is set to address nearly two 11 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.280 thousand teenagers tomorrow at the Nita Mukishambani Cultural Center, where 12 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.840 he'll be inaugurating the India International Movement to Unite Nations 13 00:00:57.000 --> 00:01:03.000 fifteenth Anniversary Conference. Timing matters here. This comes just weeks 14 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.000 after the Cocro Junta parties protests over the alleged NEAT 15 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:11.200 paper leak grew into a wider student led agitation and 16 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:16.079 culminated into the resignation of Union Education Minister that Remindri Putan. 17 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:19.560 The event will bring together students between the ages of 18 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.159 fifteen and nineteen from more than one hundred cities, which 19 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:27.000 the BJP and RSS insiders have described as the song's 20 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:31.640 most significant outreach to gen Z and Jen Alpha since 21 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.040 the protests that had exposed what senior leaders now privately 22 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.840 acknowledge as a widening disconnect with young people. 23 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:45.200 The question is why RSS is agreed for that. 24 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:47.400 That's the Indian express is shubhangi Kupre. 25 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:51.319 Now there are two things. From one perspective, were the 26 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.200 understanding that I got when I spoke to several people 27 00:01:54.359 --> 00:01:59.000 in BJP and other right wing outfits. This risis puts 28 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.079 it like it's an ongoing exercise. It's not that, you know, 29 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.519 the risis doesn't interact with people. They have held similar 30 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.840 exercises in the past, but here we can be sure that, 31 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:11.800 you know, the developments that took place at Genter Mandel 32 00:02:12.039 --> 00:02:15.919 and the ramifications of that protest across the country has 33 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.560 somewhere rattled the ruling BJP, not only in Delhi but 34 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:23.280 also across the states that they have the government and 35 00:02:23.319 --> 00:02:26.919 they're ruling. And obviously the BJP is now trying to 36 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.599 walk out, you know, various methods like how to kind 37 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:33.680 of counter but they don't want to be seen countering, 38 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.000 you know, with just from political platforms, so they're also 39 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:40.520 using this kind of a strategy. They have a multiprong 40 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:44.120 strategy to address this issue, to neutralize the anger, the 41 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:47.479 unrest amongst the generation next. And I think one of 42 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:50.599 the platforms they have chosen or one of the method 43 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.639 or model they have chosen is to kind of involve 44 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:57.159 the rses and when the arts Is chief interacts with 45 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.400 the generation next gen Z and zen Far, it's also 46 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:04.879 to give a larger message that look we here's the organization. 47 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:10.280 The BJP's ideological mentors are also engaged in the exercises 48 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:13.599 of uh you know, reaching out to the generation next. 49 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:17.680 Now, at the height of the protests, Mohun Bagworth had 50 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:21.159 said that the younger generation cannot be dealt with through 51 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:26.080 orders or dictation, but through discussion, affection and reason. 52 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:49.800 And not only that, even Hosbal, he was a General 53 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.520 Secretary and second in command in the arrisis, he also 54 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:56.000 spoke of how the education system should evolve and you know, 55 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:58.759 use different methods to kind of you know, reach out 56 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:02.280 to the students and just the concerns and again join 57 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.319 General Secretary Atu Limeh. He also addressed the youth the 58 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:09.000 Kilbarte with that de Punish, which is a right wing 59 00:04:09.080 --> 00:04:12.360 students organization. And you know he analyzed this old protest 60 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:15.360 cockroage and the party protests. He said it was looking 61 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:19.199 for an alternative political front. The left organizations had hijacked 62 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:22.920 this protest and they were trying to exploit this protest 63 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:27.040 using the students to provide an up to evolve an 64 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:30.439 alternative political front or given alternative politics. 65 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.920 Now, what makes Bugbert's rule especially important is that the 66 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:39.680 RSS usually does not respond to political crisis with immediate 67 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:40.600 public intervention. 68 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.240 So you know, in a short span of say two 69 00:04:44.279 --> 00:04:46.759 weeks or less than two weeks, you know, three top 70 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.879 RSS leaders speaking on this itself was unprecedented because generally, 71 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:56.240 whenever situation unfolds, even a very major policy decisions, the 72 00:04:56.480 --> 00:04:59.759 RSIs takes his own time to respond. They generally don't 73 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:03.600 in this national discourse, so they keep themselves away, they 74 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:06.399 maintain that distance. But here in this case, what we 75 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:10.360 noticed all top three RSS leaders, you know, they have 76 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:13.040 kind of come out with statements, They've engaged their own 77 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:17.319 career into this and with a lot of cautiousness, warning 78 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.600 and you know what should be done and what they 79 00:05:19.639 --> 00:05:23.160 can do. I think that itself shows how seriously they 80 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:25.680 have also taken and they're willing to come forward and 81 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.399 you know, try to work with BJP or independently, you know, 82 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.879 try their own ways and methods or use their own 83 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.399 style to address this issue, which from a social point 84 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:37.800 of view in that sense. 85 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.319 And that reaction is now being viewed as an important 86 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.879 marker should Hunki says. According to BJP insiders, it triggered 87 00:05:47.000 --> 00:05:49.120 introspection within the organization. 88 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:52.639 You know, rs is from what it used to be 89 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:55.439 in the past and what it is today at present. 90 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:59.399 There's also a paradigm shift. You know, Initially till say 91 00:05:59.480 --> 00:06:04.279 ninety mid nineties, they always chose to be working or 92 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.839 operating in a very closed door manner or rather you know, 93 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.160 or not come before the media even if they had to. 94 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:13.839 It used to be always behind the kind of hero 95 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:16.800 scenes or not to get not based. But I think 96 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:20.279 gradually they also realized the power of media or they 97 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.199 also realized that, you know, the organizations have some kind 98 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:27.759 of channel, you know, where they engage people from divers 99 00:06:27.879 --> 00:06:31.240 field and media was one of the important segments in 100 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:34.439 that sense. And this year specifically, they have been very 101 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:39.000 proactive when it comes to engaging people from different diverse 102 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:43.160 field and divers segments and communities. It's also the centenary 103 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.399 celebrations that's undergoing. But instead of celebrating in a conventional 104 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.639 method or term as we understand celebrations, what they've done 105 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:55.360 is they have tried to hold series of interactions or 106 00:06:55.360 --> 00:07:00.319 dialogues with different segments of people, two different platforms. And 107 00:07:00.360 --> 00:07:03.240 I think in this current context, what the b sense 108 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.079 is that this kind of agitation which took place a 109 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:10.199 gunder Monther, was beyond the expectations of the BJP and 110 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:13.319 BJP being a ruling party both at Center and in 111 00:07:13.399 --> 00:07:16.560 mah Rashtra and in several states across the country. I 112 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.720 think they never anticipated the anger or the protests to 113 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:25.160 this degree. I think the ruling party is into some 114 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:30.000 extent sensing that yes, a sizeable section of the youngsters, 115 00:07:30.079 --> 00:07:33.680 the generation next is upset with them, is very restless, 116 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:35.959 is very angry with them, and it's not to do 117 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:39.000 only with the exam reforms, but also there are other 118 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:42.160 issues like unemployment and other things which has you know, 119 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:44.439 brought this anger in them. 120 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:48.160 Trabhani says that since then, the SONG and the BJP 121 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.199 have begun reviewing their youth outreach with the Akilbart with 122 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:56.319 Harti Parashad and Bart Janta Yama being asked to set 123 00:07:56.399 --> 00:07:58.040 up engagement with students. 124 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:02.000 Now, the whole point is the two steam of thoughts 125 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:04.480 like whether it should be you know, they should counter 126 00:08:04.639 --> 00:08:07.360 it from the political platform, which they are anyway doing 127 00:08:07.360 --> 00:08:10.839 from day one, that is the party spokespersons in respective 128 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:14.279 states and at Center also are kind of using their 129 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:17.800 own a kind of catchphrases or also trying to show 130 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:20.199 like how much the government has done and how this 131 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.240 is a left oriented or left driven or or whatever. 132 00:08:23.319 --> 00:08:25.319 They have come up with new analogy, you know, like 133 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:28.800 this is a protest which is according to them, is 134 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.319 you know, political and it's you know, the students are 135 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:33.440 being messlit. I mean, that's what they say. But in 136 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.440 the heart of art, they also know that this is 137 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:36.480 it's not so simple. 138 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.440 And so the SUNG has sharpened its youth focus. 139 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:44.879 Soon after this protest to Jenta Manta, they were series 140 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:48.399 of meetings with the youth wing and they were called 141 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:51.000 and there was series of meetings in their headquarters in 142 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:54.759 Maarashtra as well across the states wherever BJP is a 143 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.600 ruling party and even at Center I gather and they 144 00:08:58.600 --> 00:09:00.799 are there also being given a de in it kind 145 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.360 of row, you know, the women wing of BGP that 146 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:05.919 is also being going to be used for this kind 147 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.559 of reach out programs. And apart from that, the BGP 148 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.799 is also having a week long Tirraga rally from August tenth. 149 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:17.120 So this Tirraraga rally they had last year also where 150 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.600 they gave the slogan he tianga every house should have 151 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:23.480 a national flag. But what makes it different this time 152 00:09:23.600 --> 00:09:26.200 is the focus will be on reaching out to the 153 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:30.799 generation next Zenz and zen Alpha. See the concern or 154 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.159 the reason why the right wing or RSS and BGP 155 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:38.120 is taking this issue so seriously is also because they 156 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:42.759 realized that the first time voters that's eighteen plus onwards. 157 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.039 If you look at the Zenz and then Alpha together, 158 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:49.360 they constitute something like up to thirty percent of the 159 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:53.240 demographic population of the country. So that's a huge population, 160 00:09:53.320 --> 00:09:55.840 you know, so when this vote bank, it also becomes 161 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.080 like a vote bank for the BGP. And in the 162 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:00.519 last elections also they had made a lot of efforts 163 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:02.879 to kind of reach out to the first time voters, 164 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:05.480 you know, always you know, the issue that at that 165 00:10:05.559 --> 00:10:08.159 time was you know, like how they wanted to project 166 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:11.720 development and you know, well being of their career, being 167 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:14.960 of their future. So when the generation exactly the same 168 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.039 voter when they are questioning you right now, it has 169 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:21.200 some way shaken them and they will do everything possible 170 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:24.159 to kind of you know, negate or neutralize this kind 171 00:10:24.159 --> 00:10:27.399 of anger and undrest in the coming years. Because next 172 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:29.919 general elections are in twenty twenty nine, they still have 173 00:10:29.919 --> 00:10:32.480 a lot of time in marst Also the Assembly election 174 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:35.200 is twenty twenty nine, but I don't think they're going 175 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:36.039 to wait for that. 176 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.240 And Shrew Bunki says that there are going to be 177 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:42.080 multiple ways in which they are going to approach this. 178 00:10:43.399 --> 00:10:46.080 So if you look at last two weeks development here 179 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:49.000 in Marsh to Chief Minister they win Referdnavis held a 180 00:10:49.039 --> 00:10:51.960 meeting with the cabinet and he also decided to launch 181 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.559 anti drug campaign. Now, anti drug campaign is a social 182 00:10:55.639 --> 00:10:58.960 cause which nobody is going to counter or protest a question, 183 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.799 because it's a very very good cause obviously, so but 184 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.320 through this campaign they will also try to reach out 185 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:07.679 to the generation, to the schools, the colleges and you 186 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.600 know involved them in this drive against drug abuse. And 187 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:14.679 you know his statement that they cannot be any tolerance 188 00:11:14.799 --> 00:11:17.519 for drug abuse in ma Restra or country. And I 189 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.919 think if you look at last two days ago, I 190 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.080 think just after marsht announced it, even the Prime Minister's 191 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.480 a message was an anti drug abuser, you know, the 192 00:11:26.559 --> 00:11:30.399 appeal to the youths. So they will use various issues now, 193 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:34.919 you know, which are very specific and targeted towards gen 194 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:38.519 Z and zen Alpha. And beyond these issues, beyond the 195 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.240 you know, the course corrections in the state government, the 196 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.120 political forums, they will also have the battery of their 197 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:49.120 own youngsters. They will also be trained and will be 198 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:52.080 sensitized to kind of you know, how to go about 199 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:53.639 and reach out to the generation. 200 00:11:53.799 --> 00:12:02.440 Next and next week talk about Mumbai pushing over four 201 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:07.320 thousand corore liters of drinking water into the sea last month. 202 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.000 Over a span of just eight days, Mumbai received nearly 203 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:14.360 nine hundred mm of rainfall, which is more than the 204 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:18.759 city's average rainfall for the entire month of July. Following 205 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:23.559 this massive amount of rainfall, the BMC's nineteen operational pumping 206 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:27.200 station had to pump over four thousand core liters of 207 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.759 water that could have been used for drinking into the 208 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:35.159 Arabian Sea. That's roughly the equivalent of six thousand Olympic 209 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.240 sized swimming pools. This amount of water could have met 210 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:42.960 Mumbai's water needs for nearly ten days, but it turns 211 00:12:43.000 --> 00:12:46.240 out this played a crucial role in preventing the city 212 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:51.200 from drowning. Now, this incident raises a fundamental question. Why 213 00:12:51.320 --> 00:12:55.360 can't a city like Mumbai, which receives such heavy rainfall 214 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:59.519 every year, store or reuse this water instead of letting 215 00:12:59.519 --> 00:13:02.519 it flow to the sea. So to understand what happened, 216 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:05.799 why the water had to be pumped out, and whether 217 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.519 there are alternatives, Michael Nahara Kananda spoke to the Indian 218 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:12.639 Expresses p Ti Pacharya, who reported on the story for 219 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:13.279 the newspaper. 220 00:13:14.879 --> 00:13:17.360 Prati, can you begin by telling us what happened? 221 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:21.679 How did Mumbai end up releasing nearly ten days' worth 222 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:23.360 of drinking water into the sea. 223 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:27.279 Yeah, So we all know that Mumbai is known for 224 00:13:27.519 --> 00:13:31.679 deceiving heavy monsoon rain every year, right, so this year 225 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:36.120 we have seen intense rainfall between June thirty and July seven, 226 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.919 and during this seven eight day period, the city recorded 227 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.360 eight hundred and ninety eight millimeters of rainfall, which is 228 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:47.360 much more than the city's monthly average for the month 229 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:51.240 of July. So during this time, Mumbai has nineteen operational 230 00:13:51.360 --> 00:13:55.879 pumping stations, which you know pushes this floodwater into the sea. 231 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.159 So during this seven eight day period, this pumping stations 232 00:13:59.240 --> 00:14:02.759 come like altogether, this nineteen pumping stations. 233 00:14:02.480 --> 00:14:04.720 Pushed four two hundred and ninety. 234 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.159 Chroal litters of water into the Arabian Sea and the 235 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:10.360 creeks around the city. So this two hundred and ninety 236 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:14.320 coroal litters which were pushed into the sea is equals 237 00:14:14.360 --> 00:14:18.399 to the city's daily water requirement for nearly ten eleven days, 238 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.879 and it is the combined capacity of eight pow legs. 239 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:26.039 You know, Powell Leg is a lake in like Mumbai, 240 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:28.840 So the capacity of a Powell leg is five hundred 241 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:33.279 and forty five roll litters and this hole, the total 242 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:36.519 water pumped out equates to the combined storage capacity of 243 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:38.879 eight power legs. So basically the water that has been 244 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.759 pumped out of the city is the floodwater, the rain 245 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:44.879 water that comes and that accumulates in the city. 246 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.000 So yeah, but why was the water released instead of 247 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 being stored. Was this a planned decision or more like 248 00:14:52.039 --> 00:14:53.159 an emergency response? 249 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:58.039 No, so basically in Mumbai, there is no proper methodology 250 00:14:58.120 --> 00:15:00.480 or I would say mechanism in place that is used 251 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.200 for you know, storing rainwater. I mean there is one 252 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:07.080 holding tank in the other in parale so I think 253 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:13.399 that holding tank has a capacity to hold around three 254 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:17.279 coroll liters of water, the existing holding tank that we 255 00:15:17.360 --> 00:15:19.360 have in the other So at present, the city does 256 00:15:19.399 --> 00:15:22.039 not have an infrastructure, you know, not to hold this 257 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:26.039 rainwater or to like catch this rainwater within the city. 258 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:28.519 I mean there are small boroers, there are small you 259 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:33.320 know underground kind of tanks or underground catchment areas, but 260 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.799 there is no proper infrastructure that can hold this, like 261 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.000 such a huge quantum of rainwater that accumulates. 262 00:15:40.279 --> 00:15:41.399 On the city's surface. 263 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.799 Therefore, to prevent the city from rating submerge and to 264 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:48.279 prevent the water from falling like on the sea, this 265 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:53.360 water gets channeled out to the Arabian Sea through dewatering 266 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:54.960 pumps and pretep. 267 00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:58.240 As a city, how does Mumbai get its drinking water? 268 00:15:58.559 --> 00:15:59.879 What is the mechanism there? 269 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:04.240 Okay, so Mumbai being an island city, we are surrounded 270 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.080 by the sea from three sides, right like the Arabian 271 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.240 Sea is there in the east, west and the south. 272 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:12.320 In the eastern side there is also a creek. I 273 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.960 mean it is not just the Arabian Sea. In overall, 274 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.080 there is a Thani creek, there is a Washi creek, 275 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.759 so there are creek waters. So basically the seawater only 276 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.080 enterns into the creek. And we know that seawater is 277 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.200 aligned and so it is not fit for drinking or 278 00:16:26.200 --> 00:16:30.120 portable usage or agricultural usage. So therefore, as a result, 279 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.279 the city gets its portable water from seven lakes. 280 00:16:33.600 --> 00:16:35.440 These lakes are situated. 281 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:38.440 In Thane, in Nashik and in Palgar, so these are 282 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:39.759 the like satellite towns. 283 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.360 Like on this lakes there are the reservoirs. 284 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.039 Or dams that have been built, and so the seven 285 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:48.840 lakes are called like the Tulsi, we are Batsa, Tansa 286 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.840 upper Modaksa. So these are seven lakes. So what happens 287 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:57.159 every year during the monsoon the catchment area of this 288 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:02.200 lakes gets filled and the water from this catchment area 289 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:05.799 is supplied to Mumbai throughout the year through pipelines and 290 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:09.480 after they're filtered in a filtration plant. Therefore, the city 291 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:13.759 is entirely dependent on these lakes and the seven lakes 292 00:17:13.759 --> 00:17:16.720 were built within a period of one fifty years and 293 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:20.440 that is why the city doesn't have any natural source 294 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:23.480 of in built water system and so we are completely 295 00:17:23.519 --> 00:17:26.519 dependent on the seven lakes for our daily water supply. 296 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.839 So, like you mentioned, there was a period of very 297 00:17:29.839 --> 00:17:33.279 heavy rain. So how does Mumbai's dams and reservoir system 298 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:35.039 operate during such periods? 299 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.400 Yeah, so, like I said, that the catchment area of 300 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:42.839 this dams gets filled during the rains and after all 301 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:46.440 these dams reaches its full capacity to one hundred person capacity, 302 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:50.000 they start to overflow, following which you know, the water, 303 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:52.960 the surplus water is not being stored. So for example, 304 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.000 the upper Vaydnia can hold two point two lack million 305 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:58.240 liters of water in total, the Middle. 306 00:17:58.039 --> 00:17:59.960 Vinia can hold its one point. 307 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:02.319 Seven three lack million litters in total and the Modoc 308 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.559 Sugar can hold one point two lack million litters of 309 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:09.279 water in total. So what happens these three dams, They 310 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:12.200 form the most important you know what a supply system, 311 00:18:12.200 --> 00:18:15.200 which is called the pats Wyn system. So these three 312 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:19.039 dams are located in an elevation where upper wa is 313 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:21.440 at the highest point. After that there is a middle 314 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:24.079 and at the last point there is a Moduc sugar. 315 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.839 So what happens Once Upper gets filled, the supplus water 316 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:31.599 from Upper Na falls into Middle and once this two 317 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:35.079 dams are failed, the supplus water from this two dams 318 00:18:35.079 --> 00:18:38.240 falls into Moduk sugar. And it's only after when these 319 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.880 three dams are reaches their full capacity the supplus water 320 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.599 falls into the river or falls into the creek and 321 00:18:44.640 --> 00:18:45.599 they gets washed away. 322 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:50.000 So yeah, but would this water have been diverted or 323 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:54.160 stored elsewhere or was releasing it the only option? Would 324 00:18:54.400 --> 00:18:57.079 rainwater harvesting have been implemented somehow? 325 00:18:57.640 --> 00:18:59.680 Yeah, I mean that is what the experts are saying, 326 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.759 that there is a need for rainwater harvesting. For example, 327 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.720 I mean, the BMC is also building a two hundred 328 00:19:05.920 --> 00:19:10.200 mld you know, project to catch the additional supplus water 329 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.839 that flows from one of the legs, which. 330 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:14.039 Is VirD and that is located in Mumbai. 331 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:17.200 And through this project, the BMC aims to capture around 332 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.480 two hundred million liters every day of water. But the 333 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.680 officials say that this is very less. I mean, this 334 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:24.200 is not even one percent of the total water that 335 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:27.119 is supplied to the city. Because Mumbai has a demand 336 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:29.400 of four thousand, three hundred. 337 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:32.079 Million liters of water daily, of which the BMC is 338 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.920 able to you know, supply around. 339 00:19:33.599 --> 00:19:36.720 Three thousand, nine hundred thousand, eight hundred emlit So there 340 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:39.279 is already a deficit of four hundred emility every day. 341 00:19:39.480 --> 00:19:43.839 So the maximum capacity of water that can be caught 342 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:45.039 at the rd leg is. 343 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:46.880 Around two hundred emility. That is there. 344 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:50.079 And apart from this, the BMC is in the plan 345 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:53.519 of you know, constructing eight hundred bioswells. So bioswells are 346 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:58.279 vegetated depressions that capture and filter like rainwater or you 347 00:19:58.319 --> 00:20:01.440 know stormwater into the ground can allows it to parcolate 348 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:05.319 underneath the surface. So by capturing this water, now the 349 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:09.279 BMC can you know improve the groundwater table of Mumbai 350 00:20:09.799 --> 00:20:12.799 underwater table just go groundwater table, the water table work there. 351 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:16.440 So the BMC can improve that for Mumbai because being 352 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:19.079 an island city which is very close to the same, 353 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:20.680 Mumbai has are very poor. 354 00:20:20.440 --> 00:20:22.359 Water levels when it comes to ground level because the 355 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:24.480 groundwater is a saline and they're very close to the 356 00:20:24.480 --> 00:20:25.279 sea and everything. 357 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:27.240 So by that way they can you know, improve the 358 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:30.559 groundwater level. But there is no proper mechanism in place 359 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:34.319 through which you can catch this rainwater, you can hold 360 00:20:34.359 --> 00:20:36.960 this rainwater and you can make it useful for your 361 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.000 future purposes. 362 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.720 And what are the possible challenges that the city can 363 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:43.200 face in accomplishing this? 364 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:48.599 So, for example, creating an underground holding facility is very expensive. 365 00:20:48.759 --> 00:20:51.759 I mean the three crore liter I mean underground tank 366 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:54.720 that we are speaking about that was constructed in Dadar, 367 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:58.039 it cost it around one hundred and thirty rods. In comparison, 368 00:20:58.319 --> 00:21:01.039 like if we construct a three hundred roll liters, it 369 00:21:01.079 --> 00:21:05.079 would cost at least two thousand crews excluding operation and maintenance. 370 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:09.079 So the upkeep of these facilities is very expensive. 371 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:10.200 So yeah, that's how it is. 372 00:21:10.799 --> 00:21:13.160 And the deep how crucial could this be for a 373 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:17.599 city like Mumbai that, apart from heavy rainfall, also faces 374 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:18.480 water shortages. 375 00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:23.119 So basically the experts say they're storing this rainwater through 376 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:27.400 rainwater harvesting structures or recharging bore wells could significantly strengthen 377 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:30.480 the city's water security because if we make this natural 378 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.599 kind of bore wells orrainwater harvesting systems, you can catch 379 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:36.799 these water and you know this rainwater is not impure, 380 00:21:36.839 --> 00:21:38.640 I mean it may not be fit for drinking or 381 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:41.960 portable usage, but you can still use it for industrial usage. 382 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:44.839 So if you use this kind of rainwater and all 383 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:47.960 the supplus water for portable usage, you don't have to 384 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:51.480 supply water from this lake to industries. So the dependency 385 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:54.319 of these industries on the seven legs which supply portable 386 00:21:54.359 --> 00:21:57.519 water to Moivile reduce. So in a way, the proportion 387 00:21:57.599 --> 00:21:59.839 of water that gets supplied for drinking water it will 388 00:21:59.839 --> 00:22:04.160 in So in a way, storing rainwater and supplying for 389 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:07.680 industrial use or even for portable in storing rainwater can 390 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:11.920 augment the improved their Mumbai's water security by a large margin. 391 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:15.839 But again the administration say that this process is very expensive. 392 00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:22.680 And in the end we talk about an Air India 393 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.240 flight from Fuke to Delhi that suddenly lost around three 394 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:31.599 hundred feet in altitude after encountering turbulence, leaving seventeen people 395 00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:36.000 injured in a mid airscare. Thirteen passengers and four crew 396 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:39.559 members were injured aboard the flight on Tuesday. The airbus 397 00:22:39.599 --> 00:22:43.799 eight three twenty nevertheless landed safely at Delhi Airport at 398 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:47.599 around eleven am and everyone on board was able to disembark. 399 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:51.160 As reported by the Union Express's devanch Metal and Sukulpharma. 400 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:55.039 The injured would take into the airport's medical center for assessment. 401 00:22:55.319 --> 00:22:58.359