A joint effort has been launched to sanitise the city streets and clean the drains to avoid flash floods, which might be a hindrance in the fight against Covid-19. Government bodies like the water resource department (WRD) and the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) are under pressure to gear up and complete all works to combat flash floods. The department has 22 high-capacity water pumps in their six permanent pumping stations and around 14 trolley- mounted mobile water pumps to ease out flash floods here. The city, which has borne the brunt of flash floods, has seen a major decrease of such occurrences in the last two to three years owing to leverage of high-capacity water pumps. The Indian Meteorology Department, Guwahati, has forecast rain or thundershowers this week.

Source: The Telegraph April 15, 2020 23:48 UTC