Delhi, 2050. A wasteland supports only remnants of a city. Ashish Mathew Koshi surveys Delhi’s bleak future.

…Rainfall won’t save us. “The monsoons will become unpredictable, and then there won’t be any rainfall at all,” said Govind Singh who runs the environment awareness group Delhi Greens.  Everyone remembers this year’s capricious monsoon, but fewer Dilliwalas know that the average levels of water table in August was lower than it had been in May.

“The summers will become much hotter, and winters will grow warm,” Singh said, adding that this has already begun…