write a paragraph discribeing experience of the the recent floods in hyderabad in 150 to 200 words
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'We have been feeding our lakes a diet of garbage, sewage and making them sick'One of our biggest failures is waste management. You see, every water body has a holding capacity. But over the years, with all the industrial waste and sewage being dumped into the lakes, the waste accumulated and has now affected the holding capacity of the lakes, vertically. So, the original ‘full tank limit’ of our waterbodies /lakes doesn’t hold good anymore. Off the record, officials will also admit that we should reduce the FTL by half, since the rest is filled with silt. That’s not all. Even the feeder channels, which used to bring storm water to the lakes, have been reduced to drainage pipes which dump garbage, chemical waste and sewage water into them. We caused this! Sadly, even if some people are doing their bit, the government is undoing all the good. Take for instance the High Court order passed in January 2016 on segregation of dry and wet waste. You might be doing it at your home, but they are still collecting all waste together and dumping them together. There are laws like Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000, and The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, in place. But the question is, who is executing them? Hopefully, we’ll act before our water bodies die and we drown!
— Dr Lubna Sarwath, Co-Convener, Save Our Urban Lakes
Multidimensional approach need of the hour
In its 2016 report titled 'State of India’s urban Water Bodies', the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) had estimated that in the last 12 years, Hyderabad has lost 3,245 ha of its wet lands.
The report had said that urban water bodies in India have been a victim of unplanned urbanisation, because of which they face several threats such as encroachment, disposal of sewage and groundwater decline.
Urban storm water management may not be efficient unless it was handled in conjunctive manner. A multidimensional approach is necessary to solve this problem. For the recent case, some of the management options which has to be carried simultaneously to address the problem are:
* Risk mapping of the areas of the city should be done to assess the vulnerability, related to urban floods, using GIS Technology.
* Limit, reduce and/or mitigate for impervious surfaces throughout the watershed by Use of new engineering techniques like pervious pathways, pervious parking lots should be considered and implemented wherever possible to minimize the surface runoff