‘The water came up to my waist but I carried on walking’ – This is climate breakdown

<p>When the rain started I had to find a way home to my children. I could never have imagined how long it would take. This is Ruchira’s story</p><p><em>Location</em> Mumbai, India</p><p><em>Disaster</em> Maharashtra floods, 2005</p><p><em>Ruchira Gupta is an English-to-Hindi interpreter, a former lawyer, and mother of two daughters. In 2005, she was working at a small law firm in Mumbai, India when <a href="https://www.adrc.asia/view_disaster_en.php?Lang=en&amp;Key=857">heavy rainfall</a> flooded the country’s western state of Maharashtra, killing 926 people. Between 1950 and </em><em>2015, there was a threefold <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00744-9">increase</a> in extreme rain events in India.</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/nov/14/the-water-came-up-to-my-waist-but-i-carried-on-walking-this-is-climate-breakdown">Continue reading...</a>