Integrated Flood Warning System (IFLOWS-Mumbai) inaugurated
Part of: GS-Prelims and GS-I – Geography; GS-III – Science and technology
In News:
Integrated Flood Warning System – IFLOWS was inaugurated in Mumbai by Union Minister forEarth Sciences and Maharashtra Chief Minister.
Key takeaways
It is developed by the Union Ministry for Earth Sciences on the request of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM).
It is a state-of-art system for Mumbai and is expected to enhance Mumbai’s resilience by providing early warning for flooding specially during high rainfall events and cyclones.
It comprises seven modules:
Data Assimilation
Flood
Inundation
Vulnerability
Risk
Dissemination Module
Decision Support System.
The system has provisions to capture the urban drainage within the city and predict the areas of flooding, which will be incorporated in the final system.
