Mumbai was originally seven islands. In 1782, the city’s British governor began to connect them with multiple land reclamation projects, a process that was finally completed in 1845. We'll see whether the water will reclaim the land in the next 30 years.
of them live within a half a mile from the Arabian Sea. And climate scientists predict that 80 percent of the land they live on may be under water by 2050 due to global warming.
“Extreme rainfall has increased in Mumbai and is likely to increase even more,” Subimal Ghosh from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai,, an Indian science magazine. “The prediction is in sync with the observed trend as well as the studies that we have been carrying out regarding the future pattern of rainfall.” Ghosh is one of the lead authors of a 2021Within the crammed city, full of buildings and pavement, “urban heat islands” are making the situation even worse.
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