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How monsoon damage is forcing India to plug gaps in tracking infra losses
A new database aims to track real losses as monsoons batter roads, power, and telecom, exposing gaps in disaster planning
 "Loss to infrastructure is also difficult to assess since there are few other sources to tabulate the risks.")
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Loss to infrastructure is also difficult to assess since there are few other sources to tabulate the risks.
When water gushes out of river channels, what is the greatest damage it can cause to infrastructure? Despite pictures of torn houses and cars, if roads, telecom towers and power stations remain safe, the scale of loss is not more than 30 per cent of the overall infrastructure assets in the area.
In this mega monsoon season billowing over India, these are some slivers of reassuring thought, since India does not have any sequestered sum available to finance such losses. A report written by the New Delhi-based Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI), a global network of countries working to
