In many Indian towns, the arrival of rain brings a familiar scene. Roads flood. Stormwater rushes through concrete drains, and within hours, the water is gone. And beneath the ground, wells continue to dry. In Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu, that cycle had become difficult to ignore. Borewells were failing across villages. Farmers were drilling deeper for water that no longer seemed to exist. Yet every monsoon, thousands of litres of rainwate…
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