Industrial boom and development has caused linearity to fade away. Opportunities have resulted in growth, which is turn has engendered various forms of urban settlements; linear, nuclear and dispersed, in which the latter two have seem to inhabit most of the realm. Urbanization is a resultant of this dramatic social-economic growth and population outburst, which has led to redefine our land use and green cover, something which is strategically guided beforehand by a group of planners, architects and engineers, to have a controlled urban and ecological equilibrium. Technology, infrastructure, etc has brought upon unforeseen forces like rapid migration from rural to urban areas, creating metropolitan sprawls, farmland displacement, and deforestation, leading to the loss of arable land, habitat destruction, and the decline of natural greenery areas. This is only going to worsen in the coming years, and with the declining rate of earth’s natural systems, redistribution of population, revising policies of ascertaining equal socio-economic-political advantages for all classes of people, evidently requires to be intervened.

Over the last few years, major Indian cities have been facing the brunt of 

Climate Change. Hyderabad for example, has experienced some of the worst flooding this year which has not only claimed many lives but is still struggling to seek asylum from the aftermath. A deep monsoon depression over the west central Bay of Bengal, which weakened as it moved over Telangana, resulted in downpours over several districts in the State, severely affecting the city of Hyderabad as well. But the underlying reasons remain unchanged. Change in land use/cover, encroachment over low-lying areas, drains, lakes, wetlands, water logging and increase in garbage dumping grounds, which in turn has increased the rate of run-offs. The adverse effects of urbanization have led to excessive inundation of storm water drainage systems. Hence even small quantity of rainfall is bound to cause flooding. Moreover, a weak and disorganized storm water drainage system (SWDs) in the city has caused the other SWDs constructed my gram panchayats to turn into sewers.