{"id":66716,"date":"2020-10-17T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T05:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=66716"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:38:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:08:20","slug":"flood-warning-system-for-mumbai-iflows-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flood-warning-system-for-mumbai-iflows-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Flood Warning System For Mumbai \u201cIFLOWS-Mumbai\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>IFLOWS-Mumbai<\/strong>: It is an Integrated Flood Warning system to enhance the resilience of Mumbai by providing early warning for flooding specially during high rainfall events and cyclones.\n<ul>\n<li>The system also has provisions to capture the urban drainage within the city and predict the areas of flooding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Developed by:\u00a0<\/strong>Ministry of Earth Sciences using in-house expertise and in close coordination with Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>Mumbai will be the second city to get such a warning system in India after Chennai.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Urban Flooding:\u00a0<\/strong>Flood is defined as an overflow of a large body of water over areas not usually inundated.Thus,flooding in urban areas is caused by intense and\/or prolonged rainfall which overwhelms the capacity of the drainage system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Causes:\u00a0<\/strong>Heavy rainfall, Occurrence of High Tides, Unplanned Urbanization, Inadequate Drainage System among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFLOWS-Mumbai: It is an Integrated Flood Warning system to enhance the resilience of Mumbai by providing early warning for flooding specially during high rainfall events and cyclones. The system also has provisions to capture the urban drainage within the city and predict the areas of flooding Developed by:\u00a0Ministry of Earth Sciences using in-house expertise and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/flood-warning-system-for-mumbai-iflows-mumbai\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flood Warning System For Mumbai \u201cIFLOWS-Mumbai\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1229,4182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-management","category-environment","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704837124},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}