Delhi reels from record rainfall | On The Ground
Above average rainfall during the summer monsoon has led to the death of hundreds in India, flooding the city of New Delhi and areas in the hilly, northern part of the country.
The summer monsoon accounts for 70-80 percent of South Asia’s annual rainfall, but climate change is making the weather event more erratic and causing more death and destruction in India. In this On The Ground, Arpan Rai surveys the damage brought by the summer monsoon rains and the destruction brought by the weather event.
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The summer monsoon accounts for 70-80 percent of South Asia’s annual rainfall, but climate change is making the weather event more erratic and causing more death and destruction in India. In this On The Ground, Arpan Rai surveys the damage brought by the summer monsoon rains and the destruction brought by the weather event.
Watch On The Ground on Independent TV, on site, mobile and connected TV.
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00:00 We know how much we have suffered. We are hungry and thirsty. We are trapped inside. Women, children, women. We have been out for three days. All our belongings, our wives, our children, everything is gone.
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00:30 It has been five days, but India's capital city, New Delhi, has been struggling to cope with the record rainfall that has flooded many low-lying parts of the city.
00:38 [Music]
00:58 This is the back of the Red Fort, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi gives his address every year on India's Independence Day.
01:04 Right now, hundreds of people are trying to escape from here to get away from the floods.
01:10 [Music]
01:25 People from the mostly poorer communities that live close to the Yamuna are being moved to higher ground as the river reached levels not seen for more than 45 years.
01:35 [Music]
01:44 It rains every year, but this is the first time in 25 years that it has rained so much. It was in 1987.
01:54 In 1987, the water level was high, but it was not as high as it is now.
01:59 There are animals here, but they are all sick. We don't get food.
02:05 Thousands of people have been evacuated from here at the Yamuna River Bank, but the unprecedented flooding has cut off supply of clean drinking water and electricity to large swathes of the city.
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02:30 This is a disaster that has come to all places. This is not a place that is coming to Delhi.
02:36 The situation in Himachal, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Gurgaon, and everywhere is bad.
02:45 So I think that we should all come together and help as many people as possible.
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02:59 After unusually heavy rainfall in Delhi and the hilly northern parts of India, the swollen Yamuna River flowed into the city, causing the worst flooding since 1978.
03:11 India has often experienced extreme weather, including record heat waves and heavy floods in the monsoon season.
03:20 Every year, the summer monsoon brings South Asia 70 to 80 percent of its annual rainfall, but scientists say that the climate change is making the monsoon stronger and more erratic.
03:34 Since the rainy monsoon season began on 1 June, Delhi has recorded 113 percent above-average rainfall, according to the Indian Meteorological Department.
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