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Cities Waterlogged: How Infrastructure Failures Swamp Pune and Mumbai
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This growth has obviously worked well for the local economy, but it has also revealed major flaws in the city's infrastructure.
Pune is not the only case in point - Mumbai is perhaps an even more appropriate example, as is seen in the current flooding situation which has once again brought the financial capital to its knees.
From Urban Boom to Infrastructure CrisisHowever city planning authorities view the current problems that these two cities face, their solutions have not kept up with the fast pace of real estate development.
The impact is worst on the new suburban and peripheral areas that have just been consolidated into the city limits.
If action isn't taken right now, Pune could go down the same path of unsustainable urbanization as Mumbai, an many other Indian cities.
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