Sri Lanka, Nov. 10 -- As in all other issues, the National People's Power (NPP) government is attempting to put the blame for last Friday's floods in Colombo city on the previous governments, especially certain mayors and ministers of former governments.

Conversely, all Opposition parties and their supporters seem to be overjoyed by the floods, and are ridiculing the current government as if this was the first major flashflood in the city.

From our point of view, both parties are somewhat justifiable in their stance, while both share the blame. Despite Colombo having gone under water several times and several projects were announced to address the issue for the past two decades, all previous governments failed to find a lasting solut...