Cities pay price for drainage debt
HEAVY RAINS have brought serious flooding to many cities in the south of China since the region entered its annual rainy season in June. ThePaper.cn comments:
The rainstorms have caused considerable loss of life and damage to property, as they do year after year, as if the city flooding is an incurable urban disease.
In fact, the advancement of modern technology, as well as better urban planning and construction can provide solutions to the problem. For instance, building sponge cities, which are designed to absorb, clean and use rainfall in an ecologically friendly way that reduces dangerous and polluted runoff, or raising the capacity of urban drainage and water reservoir systems would be conducive to turning floodwater into useable water resources.
