India is facing floods in almost every part of the country. From the mountains of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand to the floodplains of Assam, and from major cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Noida, flooding is becoming an increasingly serious problem. But why are floods happening in places with completely different geography? The answer is a combination of climate change, extreme rainfall, rapid urbanisation, deforestation, encroachment of wetlands and floodplains, po