Drained

If we talk about drainage then India during its marvelous era of golden age during the Chadragupta Maurya time had the best drainage system works known to man.
They were such well planned and efficiently developed that our civilization was fast on its way to becoming the greatest civilizations of all time; this at a time when the rest of the world was still wearing animal skins and learning to communicate.
This was almost 3 centuries before Christ we are talking and much later, much much later, our drainage system is nowhere near as efficient, in fact it's literally gone down the drain.

The thing about drainage systems is that if it's not systematically cleaned, upgraded and taken care of then it turns on you, refusing to swallow the swill and spilling its belly all over the city.

The differences that've taken place in the last five years in every city are mind boggling.
There's been a sudden spurt of population, pollution and immigration and a continuous weakening of civic sense has helped our drainage systems suffer the most.

Most entry points get stuffed by garbage, since the good municipality cleaners appointed by the govt. clean up the roads and stuff the massive amounts of garbage which usually includes plastic into the open mouth of drainage blocks situated under sidewalks and when it rains, water tends not to trickle down the sewage pipes, instead staying on the roads and creating a wading pool of sorts.

There is little thought given to drainage or sewage and it's the last in priority since banning beef and singing national anthems is more important than any basic system maintenance.

We do not give drainage its dues. Appointed cleaners are untrained and no one bothers to upkeep their maintenance the way it's required. There's no proper equipment or clothing, nor special trainings or teachings accorded in the way of what reality lurks underground.

As long as drainage isn't treated as a part of our national developmental program the roads will continue to live as swimming pools during monsoons.
We have grown to accord such disgust to waste and anything that flows down the sewage that no one wants to even acknowledge the fact that humans make waste, our machines make waste, and that there needs be a proper channel to disperse that.

It's the very same mentality which gets in the way of clean public bathrooms in cities and clean bathrooms in houses.
It's not often you'll find yourself in a clean toilet in someone's house, because of the belief that it's a toilet not a kitchen.
And that's exactly it, it's a toilet which means one needs to kept it much cleaner than any place in the house.
Clean, sanitary, disinfectant and dry.

Just like how toilets are the true reflection of a house, efficient systematic drainage is the proper reflection of a country.
What would one make of a city where the drains don't work?
And it's not the one city, it's almost all cities and it's a crying shame.