Why Our Cities Flood

When torrential rains turned roads into rivers in cities like Mumbai, Chennai, and Bengaluru once again in 2024, the images that emerged were sadly all too familiar: vehicles half-submerged, pedestrians wading through waist-deep water, and houses inundated in hours. These were not isolated incidents. In the same year, urban floods ravaged nations as far apart as Afghanistan, Indonesia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, and Germany. The message is clear