India's Sun City of Jodphur faces floodwater destruction

View from City Palace of Jodhpur in Rajasthan

It is known as India’s Sun City for its brilliant year-long weather conditions - and its palaces, forts and temples leave British tourists stunned every year.

Jodhpur, the walled city in Rajasthan, is on the verge of being destroyed by a tide of floodwater.

surprising in a city surrounded by desert, leaks at the bottom of reservoirs adjoining the city have caused water to seep underground

if Jodhpur, which is in an earthquake zone, suffers even a small tremor, it could be destroyed completely by a tide of floodwater.

Water is flooding the basement in the busy market area, damaging buildings and forcing businessmen to abandon the premises at the basement and keep pumping water out of the buildings

leaks in the bottom of the Kaylana-Takht Sagar reservoirs, where a far larger quantity of reserves has been stored since the Rajiv Gandhi Link Canal was diverted to the desert city in 1997 to solve a water shortage.