“Mu City Savior” app to solve urban flooding

Bhubaneswar: “Mu City Savior”, an app will now help citizens in minimising the impact of urban flooding in some vulnerable locations across the city. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Smart City Limited (BSCL) in partnership with German Development Cooperation (GIZ) developed this digital solution using co-creation methodology by involving citizens of the pilot area.

As uncontrolled urbanisation often leads to urban flooding and the Temple City is facing the crisis twice or thrice almost every year as an impact of climate change, drainage blockage and encroachment in main drains. But, now here is an information communication technology (ICT) based solution, which would help in curbing the menace in future.

The Digital solution consists of a volunteer app called “Mu City Savior” which will allow citizens to report about the current status of identified critical points in drains. The app will collect three information from citizens i.e. is there any garbage in drains, what is the water level in drains, and what about the water flow in drains.