Preparing cities for high water – The Hindu (June 10, 2016)
If governments paid serious attention to the economic geography of India’s cities, they would be doing a lot more to prepare for annual weather events like the monsoon. UN Habitat estimates that by 2030 India will have 14 major clusters of cities accounting for 40 per cent of its GDP. Other assessments indicate that nearly 80 per cent of economic production will be in urban areas by that year. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Vulnerable (adjective) – in danger, unsafe, unprotected, exposed.
- Catastrophic (adjective) – disaster, calamity, crisis, tragedy.
- Borne (past participle of bear) – endure, experience, tolerate, suffer.
- Devote (verb)- allocate, assign, allot, give.
- Colossal (adjective) – huge, massive, very large, heavy, substantial.
- Resilient (adjective) – strong, hardy, tough, flexible, quick to recover.
- Anomaly (noun) – abnormality, irregularity, oddity, deviation.
- Encroachment (noun) – invasion, intrusion, trespass, inroad.
- Erode (verb) – undermine, weaken, deteriorate, destroy, spoil.
- Revive (verb) – renew, strengthen, resuscitate, reinvigorate, improve the condition of something.
- Wherewithal (noun) – capital amount, finances, financial resources/funds.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.