MADE BY- INSIYA J NAGREE SYJCINDOOR PLANTS TO MAKE MY HOUSE HEALTHY . 1 •One way to use an indoor garden is to… 2 • How??? • An indoor garden has improved because… 3 . . Versova. Gorai and Ghodbunder. of mangroves existed in Mumbai. km. Malabar Hill and Colaba It acts as natural flood-barrier and silt trap. with sporadic patches in places such as Bandra. Mahim. . largely in the Thane creek. Britishers reclaimed these seven islands into one continuous land mass which later on came to be known as greater Mumbai In the early nineties. perhaps over 37 sq. Mangrove ecosystems which exist along the Mithi River and Mahim creek are being destroyed and Replaced with construction. sewage treatment and garbage dumps. largely because of reclamation for housing. Hundreds of acres of swamps in Mahim creek have been reclaimed and put to use for construction by builders . slums. Mumbai has probably lost 40 per cent of all its mangroves in the past decade or so. matunga hill. Many hills like mazgaon hill.worli hill do not look like hills now. Most of the hills of greater mumbai have already been vanished for housing industry & other activities Hornby vellard-a big wall was build to hold back the seawater in 1720 between worli & mahalakshmi .chinchpokli hill.tardeo hill has vanished from Mumbai's topography Even the hills like Malabar hill. In Mumbai. the sea water penetrates inland through the estuaries and creeks and seeps into the subsoil. . The water also comes down the three rivers and their tributaries. All this water has to be kept under control if the land in Mumbai is to remain habitable. the rain water is added. the recurrence of floods in the Ulhas and Vaitarna rivers and the flooding of the low lying areas in Bombay are symptoms of the geological hazards due to reclamation in Bombay. During Monsoon. The Versova beach erosion. built-up land in Mumbai has soared nearly 114 percent. in the same period. . In the past 10 years alone. forest and wetland areas shrank by 35 percent The Bandra-kurla complex was created by replacing such swamps. Bandra Point and Madh Point arrest the forward progress of the waves sweep into the bays and creeks before being checked.The incoming waves towards Mumbai advance more rapidly through a deeper water opposite a bay or creek than through a shallow water opposite a headland. Versova beach erosion may be cited as an example of the effect due to interference with natural process in mumbai. The shallow waters of headlines like Kolaba point. . Malbar point.