India's Record-Breaking Heatwave: How Are Mumbai's Urban Poor Coping? | An Unequal Heatwave

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Published 2024-07-30
As the city of Mumbai, India, bakes in an extreme heatwave in 2024, how does where one lives impact one’s capacity to cope? In the suburb of Bandra, the affluent live side by side with residents of the slums. We find out how auto rickshaw rider Feroz and his family deal with the extreme heat.

Can one NGO’s roof initiative help slum dwellers, who have no access to air conditioning or expensive home retrofits, deal with extreme heatwaves forecasted in the years ahead? Vivek Gilani of the Fairconditioning Foundation talks about the solutions needed.

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00:00 Mumbai’s worsening heatwave
00:50 How a home in the slums struggles with heat
02:50 Driving a rickshaw for 15 hours in the heat
03:37 Water scarcity in the slums
04:45 Impact of heatwave on income
05:45 Why houses in India’s slums are a heat trap
06:39 Ingenious ideas to retrofit slum roofs to beat the heat
09:41 Changing weather: Effects of rain in a heatwave

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About the show: Amid a record heatwave, we follow affluent and poor families in Mumbai, Manila and Bangkok to see how means and access impact ability to cope. What solutions are needed to deal with future heatwaves?
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All Comments (6)
  • @taq170321
    they look happy together, despite the hardships that they're encountering.
  • @marystar6021
    India has a total of 200 billionaires that have made it to Forbes' 2024 World's Billionaires list. It'd be pocket change for them to entirely fund heat deflecting coverings for all.
  • @sp_1778
    Now monsoon running.🌦️⛈️⛅️
  • @DanielVox.
    why do these people illegally occupy land and build slums? and have you seen the auto rickshaw driver why do people have 2 kids with a meager income of less than 30 dollars per day?