What comes to your mind when you hear these two words; Civil Engineering. I will tell you what comes to my mind, a vast network of roads, highrises like Burj Khalifa[1], Dams[2], and amazing infrastructure of railway tracks, communication towers, and much much more. In fact, we are surrounded by Civil Engineering in each and every aspect of our lives. It provides us with shelter in the form of our homes, when we want to travel to work or for recreation, it has given us the amazing network of roads and railway tracks and airport facilities. it will be safe to say that it was Civil Engineering that brought man out of the caves and gave him the ability to build August infrastructure and ease the lives of all of humanity.
Recent Floods in Pakistan On September 2, 2021, life in Karachi was brought to a standstill by heavy rainfall and urban flooding. Before that, two people in Islamabad lost their lives to urban floods on July 28th. Urban floods, especially during the monsoon season have become somewhat of a regular phenomenon in Pakistan for several years now and the situation is getting worse by the day. Getty Images/AFP/R. Tabassum Causes of Urban Flooding in Pakistan While discussing the causes of urban flooding, the most obvious that comes to mind is climate change. One can hear things like excessive rainfall with a high intensity almost immediately after the floods start unraveling the cities' infrastructure, often from those responsible for the administration of the cities hit by these floods. The issue to be discussed is whether climate change and change in rainfall patterns are the only things responsible for these floods or are there some deeper structural issues in our governance model tha...