Floodwaters Flooding is a way of life in much of rural India, where annual monsoon rains swell the river systems that crisscross large areas of the nation’s vast landscape. Years of deforestation, coupled with poor land planning and overcrowding, have left millions of India’s rural poor facing recurrent disaster, as flood waters wash away their livelihoods, their material possessions and their homes, most of which are built of a simple mud construction that is highly vulnerable to flooding.
