 "water crisis")
When the entire world is brainstorming on climate change at the 26th Conference of Parties (COP-26), the city of Chennai is seeing heavy rain that led to waterlogging and floods in its low-lying areas.
The manufacturing capital of India will be one of those rare cities in the world that may be seeing various extremes — flooding, shortage of water and sea-level rise — all in a year. Experts blame climate change for the surge in rain and sea-water levels, while shortage of water and flooding can be attributed to long-term over-extraction of ground water and poor planning.
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