Wires snaked through the makeshift roof of her hut, with improvised attachments to overhead cables, lethal in the monsoon rain.
Wearing the signature red ties of its salespeople, Goklaney and two colleagues brave the monsoon rain to trek up six flights of stairs in a building on Malabar Hill, the city's upmarket residential area.
Two Indian states formally declared rain-deprived areas to be in drought, and Parliament is likely to take additional steps to mitigate the impact of the monsoon-rain shortage on the broader economy.
But its samples were collected in July, in the low season for tourism and at the start of the monsoon when rain would help to purify the water.
In Rolette, in north-central North Dakota, the recent monsoon-like rain submerged some farmers' crops and spread fungus among those that stayed above the surface.
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Specialists who met in February in Pune, in Maharashtra state, reported a 4.5% decline in monsoon rain in the three decades to 2009.
Last year, India received less rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season than usual, hitting western India, which has endured a two year-long dry spell, particularly hard.
Last year, India received below-normal rain in the first half of the June-September monsoon season, and while it picked up in some areas from late August, large parts of west and south India didn't benefit.
Monsoon rain levels largely determine India's crop output and are considered among the most important factors in controlling food inflation.
The June-September monsoon is significant for India's overall economy as most farmlands are rain-dependent and more than half of the country's workforce is employed in agriculture.
Monsoon rains are critical for India and other South Asian countries as most of the farmlands are rain-fed.
Only in the monsoon season would they construct temporary huts from pandanus leaves, repair their boats and wait out the rain.
The unprecedented destruction was said to have been caused by only a day and a half of exceptionally heavy monsoon rain.
The Philippines for one is already frequently subjected to flooding and landslides caused by heavy rain, with seasonal monsoon rains in August killing at least 11 people.
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