Every monsoon, parts of Warangal slip under water with unsettling ease: low lying colonies inundated, homes breached and families briefly displaced. The pattern is neither new nor unpredictable.

“This happens every year during monsoon,” says Srinivas, a resident of S.R. Nagar. His account echoes across several neighbourhoods within the Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation (GWMC) limits, the second-largest urban conglomeration in Telangana after Hyderabad, capturing a city grappling with persistent civic distress.