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'Floods not act of nature': Experts call for reforms in land, water use
The New Indian Express
|October 07, 2025
AS the state is bracing for the northeast monsoon, experts have warned that Chennai's recurring floods are not acts of nature but failures of planning and governance.
At the 'Tamil Nadu Land Use 2025' conference organised by the state planning commission, top disaster management officials, scientists, and citizen groups called for urgent reforms in the way land and water are managed, emphasising that unplanned urbanisation and policy silos have turned natural hazards into man-made disasters.
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