Every year, in the middle of summer, Bengaluru’s civic machinery shifts gears from “water scarcity” to “rains incoming”. This year was no different. 

At a monsoon preparedness meeting in early April, the mood was tense. The meteorological department was predicting less rainfall than usual this year, uneven across the season, and El Niño’s impact was still unclear. No one in the Greater Bengaluru AuthorityGreater Bengaluru AuthorityThe new apex metropolitan governance body that replaced the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike or BBMP, starting May........

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