Question

essay on 'the monsoon and water logging in your city'

Answer 1

The monsoon is highly important for India as it fills up water reservoirs, replenishes ground water and is essential for the Indian agriculture of which around 70% are rainfed.
But the monsoon also causes problems in India’s cities. Every year the heavy rains make some parts of the city to suffer from water logging. The rainwater infrastructure, if it exists at all, is not sufficient to guarantee the drainage of the water so that streets in low-lying areas get inundated. Roads are blocked leading to traffic jams, pedestrians have to wade through flooded streets and especially the urban poor, living in slums or squatters have their homes often damaged by the water, which may take several days to recede. But water logging happens everywhere, whether in rich or in poor neighbourhoods.
The water becomes polluted when it mixes with the garbage and waste that is littered everywhere and apart from disrupting traffic it also becomes a risk to health. In an inundated street they become invisible and cause a serious threat to pedestrians and the city’s many two-wheelers.

Answer 2

It was the middle of July, and one day it started to rain. It soon began to rain heavily.

The condition became so bad that I could not go out. But what happened next was even worse.

After I went out when the raining stopped, I had to face waterlogged roads I could not make it to college.