'We have to learn to live with floods': waterlogged Surat to become latest megacity

3:00am PST - February 5th, 2019    john wall - The Guardian (AU)

The next 15 megacities #14: Surat’s battle to hold back water has raged since its first flood wall in 1664. As its population soars, India’s ‘diamond city’ needs new solutions Read the rest of our megacities series here Look up as you walk around Surat and yo…