After all the work done in beautifying the City of Colombo or making it a Miracle City or Wonder of Asia, it will be sad if we see everything getting washed down the drain when a heavy rainfall plays havoc on the lives of the city dwellers rich and poor. Right now if only we look at what is happening in the city of Bangkok in Thailand it should serve as a timely warning for us living in our coastal Capital City of Colombo.
The question the writer of this article wishes to raise first is whether the problem has really no solution or are we bypassing a readily available multipurpose solution proposed, for better profiteering, such attitude can only be compared to the popularly known story of the Beggar’s Wound, that he does not want healed for profit related reasons.
I have had the misfortune to read many recent articles written by non-experts which leads us no where near the solution except waste valuable space in the papers. Strangely when such article is challenged by more knowledgeable readers the writer of the original article seems to have the power not to publish such reply thus compelling the general public to continue to be fed with wrong or not useful information.
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