Pakistanis of the Indus Vally have faced floods before, and if weather patterns are any indication, the Pakistanis of todays Indus Valley will face more floods in the future.

Although some of its water comes from melting Himalayan glaciers, the vast majority is dumped by the summer monsoon.

As torrential rain sweeps in from the Indian Ocean, floods are triggered almost annually.

Its floodplain was an early cradle of civilisation 9,000 years ago. Here people first gave up their nomadic ways to farm livestock and cultivate crops.

Today, the Indus Valley is home to 100 million people, who rely on it completely for drinking water and irrigation. To many, it is “the Great Mother”.

“Monsoon intensity is somewhat sensitive to the surface temperature of the Indian Ocean.

“During times of cooler climate, less moisture is picked up from the ocean, the monsoon weakens, and the Indus river flow is reduced.”

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Since the monsoons are coming down in shorter periods of time which floods the rivers forcing them to overflow.

“What all the climate models predict is that the distribution of monsoon rains will become more uneven in the future,” he told BBC News.

“Total rainfall stays the same, but it comes in shorter more intense bursts.”

In August 2010, more than half of the normal monsoon rain fell in only one week. Typically it is spread over

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