> the rainy season hasn't even started and we've already got almost 6 months worth of rainfall for my city. I presume you're in Tamil Nadu because TN's rainy s

> the rainy season hasn't even started and we've already got almost 6 months worth of rainfall for my city. I presume you're in Tamil Nadu because TN's rainy season is mostly due to the NE monsoon which hasn't started yet. Rainfall in the North-Western regions like Punjab really has been insufficient in past years. In many regions in Punjab it simply doesn't rain in the 'rainy season' anymore. Even in Tamil Nadu, didn't Chennai experience more than a 50% deficit in 2018?[1] When I visited Pondicherry a few years ago, everyone I spoke to said it now rains very little compared to the usual. This year's SW monsoon has seen heavy rains but it seems to be an outlier compared to the past few years. You are correct that there is gross water mismanagement and unplanned urbanisation. Ironically, Chennai's National Institute of Ocean Technology -- one of whose jobs is to prepare impact assessment reports on 'the implications of constructing on waterbodies'[2] -- is itself constructed on a paved-over former catchment area (and gets flooded as a result).[3] [1] https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2018-12-23-historic-low-northeast-monsoon-rainfall-in-chennai https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2018-12-23-hist... [2] https://qz.com/india/563396/chennai-floods-are-not-a-natural-disaster-theyve-been-created-by-greedy-town-planners-and-dumb-engineers/ https://qz.com/india/563396/chennai-floods-are-not-a-natural... [3] https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/natural-disasters/why-chennai-floods-are-a-man-made-disaster-51980 https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/natural-disasters/why-ch...