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“Experts say that urban flooding like what Bengaluru faces is very common due to high population pressure in cities like Bengaluru. Urbanisation causes increased demand for land which is often unplanned and leaves minimal to no routes for rainwater to escape. This leads to inundation and flooding in residential and urban areas.
We spoke to researchers at WELL Labs – Veena Srinivasan and Shashank Palur – to better understand the hydrology and topography of Bengaluru and how human induced climate change has made flooding in the city worse.”
Acknowledgements
Priyali Prakash for The Hindu.
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