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Cities need to act on climate adaptation now

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The impacts of climate change are already being felt in South Asia in the form of erratic rainfall patterns predicted by climatologists. In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. The flooding was caused by an emergency release from the upstream Ukai reservoir.