Torrential Rains Highlight India's Fragile Urban Landscape

[lovuian]

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India's main commercial hub, Bombay, is counting the economic losses from torrential rains that recently lashed the city. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the unprecedented chaos that followed the rains also damaged Bombay's image, and highlighted the need for India to improve its urban infrastructure.

The record-breaking rains at the end of July turned Bombay's streets into rivers, paralyzed airport and train services, and caused massive power outages for days on end.

Warehouses were flooded, and hundreds of factories across the region ground to a halt when nearly a meter of rain fell on a single day, July 26.

Bombay is not just India's financial capital, it is also the country's manufacturing and entertainment hub.

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A Wake up call for all the corporations who have moved their outsourcing there!!! There is a REASON why you pay what you pay in the states and thats to keep your company with Electricity!!! And this is what you get in India!!! You get what you pay for!!!

I do hope these rains stop for the people of India are going through great hardship and I hope it stops soon!!!

[Joebert]

1. Outsourcing.

When you outsource something to another company, no matter where they are, you get to write contracts that let you charge them when they don't meet the service level agreement.

There are probably companies here that are now making money off of this.

Their customers suffer, but all customers do is cause profit when they buy product. So big deal, let them suffer, they already bought something.