Barely a year after torrential rains submerged large parts of Mumbai’s, the city’s water sources have fallen to critical levels and water rationing has returned. This year, a bad monsoon has led to Mumbai’s reservoirs falling to barely 9 percent of its capacity, forcing water cuts across India’s financial capital. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has halted supplies to construction sites and swimming pools, and tightened restrictions on commercial users. Predictab

The world today stands at a critical environmental crossroads. Climate change, rising temperatures, air pollution, deforestation, water scarcity, biodiversity loss, and increasing natural disasters are no longer distant concerns-they are realities affecting communities across every continent. India, too, is witnessing these environmental changes through irregular rainfall, prolonged heat waves, declining groundwater levels, loss of green cover, and growing pollution in both u