Now we can raise and change the houses that are afraid of floods

After inadequate rains for the first forty seven days of the southwest monsoon, Kerala had heavy rains beginning July 18, bringing back the fear of the August 2018 floods.
In the August 2018 floods, 251227 houses in Kerala had been critically broken. Of these, 14886 collapsed. Today the State is striving to build flood-resistant houses.
The worst affected were the low-mendacity regions like Kuttanad in Alapuzha district and the Mundrothuruthu delta island in Kollam district. Here, distinctive businesses are actually building houses that they claim will face up to any form of nature’s fury.
‘Housing Literacy’ is a time period that’s lingering over any deliberation on rebuilding Kerala. The Kerala State Disaster Management Authority is the corporation mainly concerned in spreading consciousness about the want to construct flood-resistant houses in Kerala’s ecologically fragile regions.
In the runup to the observance of the primary anniversary of the torrential floods that wreaked havoc in Kerala, causing a lack of Rs. 310 billion (31,000 crores) and claiming 483 lives, many Keralites are now graciously remembering architect Laurie Baker, who had relentlessly campaigned for building green, low-fee homes that could withstand herbal screw ups in this ecologically fragile nation. For a commonplace Keralite who is nonetheless passionate about constructing pompous bungalows, this has been the lesson from the 2018 floods.

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“Till remaining August I was dreaming of a high-quality 3,000 sq. Feet. Multi-storied mansion. But nowadays, I choose a easy and pretty ‘inexperienced’ constructing that could resist all varieties of herbal calamities,” stated Mukundan Menon, who lives in Thiruvananthapuram metropolis. His change of coronary heart changed into despite the fact that last yr’s floods had not affected him in any manner.

According to the government of Kerala, 2,51,227 houses have been broken inside the aftermath of the flood. Of them, 14,886 had collapsed irretrievably. Most of those homes that had collapsed have now been rebuilt or repaired. But, can they withstand yet some other calamity?

“We cannot make certain protection except and until all the destiny structures within the kingdom strictly adhere to environmental norms,” warned P. H. Kurian, former convenor, Kerala State Disaster Management Authority.

Eco homes thrive in the sinking delta island Mundrothuruthu
Villages and concrete centres in Kerala have been each badly tormented by the 2018 flood. Many cities and towns have already recovered. But within the villages situated in the ESAs (environmentally sensitive regions), unfold over 9,993 squarekm of fragile location, tension still persists.

Mundrothuruthu, the ‘sinking delta island’ in Kollam district, which is located on the confluence of Kallada river and Ashtamudi lake, has been routinely dealing with climate alternate-related issues. Houses, offices and roads were getting flooded at some point of excessive tides. In the ultimate floods, at the least 2 hundred houses on this village collapsed.