The popular social media platform Twitter is reportedly being used to map monsoon floods in India's Mumbai. In this brand new initiative by the Climate Studies department of Indian Institute of Technology, keywords used in tweets by the local community will be used to map heavily-flooded areas.
The civic body has been ruled by the Shiv Sena for over two decades and the BJP has targetted it over the waterlogging issue in the city. The focus was Dadar - Hindmata where crores of rupees were spent on improving drainage issues, despite which the problem persisted this week