Beyond the city: For these Satara villages, heavy rain means closed schools, shut roads

Beyond the city: For these Satara villages, heavy rain means closed schools, shut roads

Deep in the Satara district, the only sounds audible in the otherwise quiet village of Navaja are of water gushing down from the Ozarde waterfall visible in the distance, and of the heavy rain lashing the rooftops. The village received 394 mm of rainfall on July 28, according to the Maharashtra’s Agriculture Ministry rainfall data. […]