The rains have increased their intensity and it’s a blessing to have the sky break up and pour back water on the earth from which it evaporated from. But when the water doesn’t sink back into the ground like it should, but it runs freely and rapidly, gathering profusely on the earh’s surface, thereby causing flooding and erosion, it can then be called a ‘menace’. Flooding in most parts of the world today has been caused by man-made activities. Although environmental hazards such as tornados and hurricanes also contribute largely to it. Recently, in the Warri Metropolis, both major and minor streets have been seen to be acutely flooded after every downpour that people often have to wade through the flooded streets in dirty and murky waters, often times ankle deep just to get to their destinations. Why is this so? I would think that the answer is obvious! Like I mentioned in the last article, which I wrote on June 3, 2019, two days before World Environment Day, June 5, the nonchalant a