Flooding destroyed his home four times in three years. This is the reality of climate change for India's poor
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Anish Yadav was sleeping in his home, a fragile hut made of wood and plastic, when the water rushed in.
A concrete retaining wall that had previously held back monsoon floodwaters had collapsed, sending a deluge through Yadav's slum in Malad, a northern suburb in India's financial hub Mumbai.
"We woke up to people screaming for help," said Yadav, 26, of that night in July 2019. "The water had risen to our heads ... and I saw people being swept away with the water with my own eyes."
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