Coming Soon - Mumbai: Rising Waters, Sinking City

Why is Mumbai fast becoming India's sinking city? The impact of sea-level rise on India's financial capital.

Coming Soon | The Quint's documentary on why Mumbai is India's sinking city.

(Illustration: Aroop Mishra/The Quint)

Mumbai – the maximum city, India's financial capital, and the city of million dreams – is sinking. Several national and international think tanks estimate that the city will go underwater over the next hundred years.

Take, for example, a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2021, which stated that because of the continued sea-level rise and coastal flooding, Mumbai will submerge by the year 2100.

Another report by a global risk management firm, RMSI, further pushed the timeline to 2050 saying that places like Haji Ali dargah, Jawahar Lal Nehru Port Trust, Western Express Highway, Bandra-Worli Sea-link, and Queen’s Necklace on Marine drive are at the risk of submerging even sooner.

In our new documentary, Mumbai: Rising Waters, Sinking City, we answer a few key questions such as what is sea-level rise? How does it happen? Who are the people it is impacting? And, what is the threat that it poses to Mumbai?

This documentary is a part of The Quint's brand new series where we partner with actor/activist and United Nations Environment Programme Goodwill Ambassador, Dia Mirza, to bring to you the most important stories of our lives on Living with Climate Change.

Projects like these, however, can only happen with your support. The travel and production for this documentary has cost us Rs 3,79,075. Click here to become a Q-Buddy and help us meet the cost of this documentary so that we continue telling stories that the mainstream media ignores.