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Mithi ? Mithi ? acha woh gutter! Mithi ? acha woh gutter! This is what my friend Aarti said when I told her I was doing a project on Mithi Mithi was once upon a time a river Located in the Salsette Island which forms the city of Mumbai It is a Seasonal river that swells during the monsoons. Mithi’s catchment area- 3/4th of Mumbai. Confluence of tail water discharges of Powai & Vihar lakes. It is a natural drainage channel which carries excess water during the monsoons Originates at Powai and ends at Mahim creek where it meets the Arabian sea Acts as storm water drains Flows through residential & industrial complexes of Powai, Saki Naka, Kurla, Kalina, Bandra Kurla Complex, Dharavi and Mahim over a distance of 15 kms It is a nominated bird sanctuary for nesting of migratory birds. Mahim Bay area where Mithi meets the Arabian sea was initially full of mangroves. Par ab uski puri vaat lag chuki hain It has indeed become like a nallah or gutter Kaise? kyon? doshi kaun? encroachment slum encroachments channelization land reclamation diversion killing mangroves Coastal regulatory zone or CRZ violated pollution open defecation dumping of garbage industrial waste, untreated organics and inorganics construction debris Actually all these are very interconnected. corruption & greed, misleading nomenclature, politician-builder nexus, struggle to survive & sustain, apathy and indifference of the people play a major role in its deterioration. Coastal regulatory zone violated. Hiranandanis No structures can be built 15m of have steadily destroyed huge hills by quarrying, dumping the river bank. debris into the Powai lake, altering its water holding capacity led to greater runoffs. Mouth of Mithi has been reduced to a shocking 60%, blocking its flow and Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), drainage capacity. National Stock Exchange G -block , MMRDA head office E Block built on original course of river.Between 94-96, the G-block of Kurla scrap dealers dump a lot BKC wasreclaimed. (250 out of 730 acres wetland with jungle) of chemical, plastic, metal scrap, organic waste, sand and stone, brick debris. toxins like cyanide, Bandra Worli Sealink Obstructed the exit of river into creek and entering of sea into lead sulphate, zinc identified by creek during high tide. Fishermen displaced. Hightide damaging MPCB (when closed down, their buildings on shorelines of Mahim, Dadar, Shivaji park, Versova livelihoods are affected) Civic administration cannot handle Marine Outfalls gap between cofferdam walls on west of Mahim causeway narrowed so much waste. Civic babus, sanitory for the marine outfalls project led to floods in 1996- Kurla, Kalina, inspectors abhor going to Muslim Sion and Matunga. Outflow of mahim creek restricted. dominated areas, do only desk work Slum encroachments on the banks. do not and cannot relocate. They defecating in the open nallahs. fly menace, typhoid & diarrhoea Mangroves killed due to illegal bunding for Pisciculture Washing of oil drums, oil refineries discharging oil directly into the river Development plan of 1991 declared the river as a drain to facilitate the construction of housing societies Mumbai Airport First and main runway built on the river. It crossed the nadi on a bridge with a culvert underneath to allow the water to flow but destroyed the talao in the process. Second runway, 1970, fell short and was impossible to use by heavier planes. the airport authority kept on extending it into the river. it created a bend in the river and constricted its width. the river was diverted at 90 degrees at four places within half a km of its stretch. Walls constructed at end of road between air india and indian airline colonies by the airport authority prevents rainwater coming from Kalina from flowing further. Walls constructed by the airport authority obstructed mithi, caused floods in kurla bail bazaar. the walls collapsed during 2005 floods, the debris also clogs the river. par Sarkar kaafi kuch kar rahi hain kar toh rahi hain, par it has done more harm than good. It is a classic case of solutions becoming a problem Flattened the hillock that naturally wall seperated Mithi & human settlements. (faltugiri hain) The wall killed the mangroves. (pahad girane ke bhi paise mile, deewar khadi karne ke bhi) oxygenating Led to decrease in stench & mosquitoes but Technology is very expensive. Costed (bahut mehenga hain) Rs1.5 crore for 3 months. (no point if sewage is still being dumped) removing Throwing out people who stay on the banks and dump garbage into it encroachments (what about the big buildings? will they raze it too? ) (sirf gareebon ke) MMRDA reclaimed one hectare along desilting the bank of the river to build a road for faciltating movement of workers & widening carrying silt. They left the construction debris along the road & on the mangroves ( now there is a hectare land mass on the river bed ) beautification & promenade Empty promises? Feasibility? (jaane kab hoga!) toh isse humme kya ? woh sab theek hain, par nadi ya nallah, mera kya lena dena In a city like Mumbai where heavy flooding people are so cut off from nature, it is very easy to water logging in homes believe that yes we don't loss of property need nature. loss of lives But our lives are as dependant transport systems on nature, just that we are stop functioning unable to see the connections mosquito menace directly. That does not exempt us from the effects of all the leptospirosis and changes happening in nature other skin disease no cellular network unhygenic living conditions power cuts economy, livelihoods affected we are like that only! Understanding a Mumbaikar most of them mind their own business don't bother self involved migrants much about from all over what others think lowest MTI or the country may not know couples at marine mother tongue the neighbours drive, chowpatty impact depend on cosmopolitan crude domestic help struggle to crowd mumbaiyya lives in flats maintain language and apartments a lifestyle highly aspirational grandly celebrates struggle Ganpati visarjan Mumbaikar uses to survive dabba wala enjoys art. kala ghoda service art festival fast paced never say die travels long lives spirit distances street food display great solidarity to work lovers and whole heartedness always in in times of peril- a hurry floods, bomblasts dhakka mukki, relies heavily on find other cities chala chala public transport too slow pudhe chala called the rudest city by survey by considered normal trains taxis shops etc are readers digest and autos open till late to push the person buses in front of you train in the night friends disruption trample and elbow celebration in during monsoons their way through the train- bhajans, the local trains haldi kumkum, birthdays par main kya kar sakti hoon? 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Take-away booklets used as reference by at Cafes and cash counter Shared by the students, teachers, entire family “Kya is saal Mumbai environmental activists. of Bookstores. baarish ke liye tayaar hain?” Can read at Graphic Novel leisure when at home or during will help build context Messages on radio by commute to work a popular radio jockey Street play in disguise- Limited to readers of Control over content- maybe edited/ disputed planned arguments in that particular newspaper and language by the newspaper the train.