BBC: Once the world’s wettest places, Cherrapunji is getting up to 20% less rain every year – and is suffering water shortages. Residents say their heavenly abode in the clouds is hotter and drier than ever before – and they blame it on global warming. Cherrapunji – or Sohra in the local Khasi language – is located in the West Khasi Hills of India’s north-eastern state of Meghalaya. “Never were there very big forests around Cherrapunji and many of those that are there are …