Explain preventive measures for urban man made disasters.
Answers
Simple - by not letting ‘man’ interfere with nature.
In the past 10 years, most of the disasters were either because of indiscriminate hydropower projects in ecologically sensitive areas (for example: Uttarakhand) and illegal encroachment (urban floods in various cities like Mumbai, Guwahati, Kashmir).
With the race for ‘development’, we have forgotten about sustainability. We do need electricity and micro-projects, tidal energy plants, wind and solar energy are great options to coal-based plants and hydropower.
The only way man-made disasters can be stopped is by preserving and protecting ecologically sensitive areas and keeping the natural drainage systems like small tributaries and distributaries or lakes free from encroachment.
The government should concentrate on long-term implications when they approve or pass “development” projects to list in election manifestoes.