2005: Maharashtra Floods

The Event:
In the course of a week from 21July 2005, unusually heavy rains lashed the coastal areas of Konkan and Western Ghats in Maharashtra, causing extensive flooding in Raigad and Ratnagiri districts, with many towns and villages under water. On July 26, when the highest ever rainfall recorded in the last 100 years in the country battered sub-urban Mumbai and Thane, Maharashtra experienced one of the worst floods in its history. Flood alerts were issued in four different regions after reservoir levels touched "danger levels". Water was released from various dams in the state and people were being evacuated from low-lying regions.