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Indeed democracy is the best revenge. Enjoy the shar and zar versions of drmocracy. They will continue miserable lives and will keep voting Mafias.
This is a result of breeding like rats . No parks, no trees, no proper house for humans to live just holes for rats
I fear you have some fundamental flaw in comprehending the issue, so yo are coming out as an apologist for the politicians and finding lame excuses.
The management of storm/rain flooding is purely a technical and engineering issue. We are capable of accounting for each CFT of rainwater, track and manage its transportation and devise the systems with long-term and short-term measures. We are capable to predict the flows in each street, rooftop and field in the urban area and pre-empt and mitigate the damages. This is not easy; and the mature and effective systems are developed only after years of operation,experience and data analysis but this is not a rocket science either. Of course this requires technical experts in the field, data collection, maintenance and collaboration among various service departments along with the required funds.
That is how thousands of cities manage rainwater floods around the world.
Besides the availability of funds, which, in my opinion a city of the size of Karachi can easily manage if the priorities, politics and hearts are at the right place much more is required to develop systems for urban managements such as:
The city officials are mandated to follow the advice of the experts and engineers and pass laws as mandated by the technical bodies.
Further the technical experts are mandated for the best of engineering practices and they are held accountable for any disregard in this respect.
There is a political will and ideology about the fundamental duties and obligations of the political parties and city managers.
The city managers around the world are more interested in learning and educating them about the new research and techniques of managements, sharing their experiences and attending the technical conferences and taking advice from the experts because they know these are their basic duties and sole reason to be in the office.
Further, the laws give the right to the electorate to bring the office holders to the court if they mismanage because of their faults and ill decisions.
The city politicians are not elected to go for ‘Iftitahs’ or to distribute sweets and perks for their followers or to go in the daily routine of talk shows and media circus, like our political officials.
Unfortunately, our politicians are outdated, inapt, masters of ignorance and lack any learning skills. In the analysis of any manner, it is the duty of the politicians to manage the technical problem of urban areas under their supervision.
How the current political parties and politicians are failing us I give you an example:
Recently rainwater flood models were developed for two mid-sized cities of Punjab for the sake of initial implementation and management, advising the water flow estimates at all the critical points/streets of those cities and suggestions for modifications of the infrastructure. Of course the Punjab government did not contribute a penny for these models and a foreign agency contributed the whole of the funds for this purpose. Nor the government was any interested do any further or train/hire engineers but to shelve the reports – developed after the data collection and modeling carried out over about a year. This is so because the politicians do not see these are their basic reasons/purpose to be in the office.
Another example, back in 80’s we had developed a comprehensive engineering plan for management of Nulla Lai in Pindi after spending millions, however till today we have the same flooding problems in Pindi, because the city managers never implemented and developed the management system; they are better off to call in the military to do rescue operations when the waters are already feet high in the houses.
This is a result of breeding like rats . No parks, no trees, no proper house for humans to live just holes for rats
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