Sea of plastic: Mumbai’s flood risk cannot be managed without treating sewage and stormwater, says Shankar Deshpande
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Mithi river, once a key factor in Mumbai’s 2005 floods, still carries massive solid waste and silt into the Arabian Sea, choking stormwater drains and shrinking its capacity. MRDPA chief Shankar Deshpande stresses desilting, widening, sewage treatment and strict waste segregation.
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