The endless endurance of floods in Char
Thousands of residents are spending their days struggling for their lives on the banks of the Padma River in Bangladesh,…
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Depleting groundwater leaves residents without potable water
Barind region in Bangladesh that produces water-intensive boro rice, relies heavily on groundwater for irrigation. Climate-induced droughts, transboundary water issues…
Living with salinity in coastal Bangladesh
Coastal Bangladesh is highly prone to salinity, leading to crop and land loss. However, indigenous techniques like growing salt-tolerant crops…
Slum dwellers struggle with flood water
In the slums of Bangladesh, people are often forced to consume water contaminated with drain water and are pushed to…
The pains of collecting drinking water
In the coastal regions of Bangladesh, clean drinking water is a precious commodity. Samiha Sabur visited a fishermen community in…
Living on the edge
Every year, thousands of hectares of land erode and fall into the rivers in Bangladesh. Rising water levels swallow homes…
Drinking water crisis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Climate change and increasing deforestation are drying up the streams in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh, writes Jiten…
Unbridled groundwater extraction leading to depletion
The Barind Tract in Bangladesh risks desertification in the near future unless indiscriminate abstraction of groundwater is stopped now, writes…
Livelihood of coastal area people
The southern coast of Bangladesh is surrounded by the Bay of Bengal. Shahanaj Akter Poly lives on the southwestern edge…
Hardships and solutions
A tale of river basin people in north central region of Bangladesh. How do they deal with water and climate…
An epiphany in the midst of a Bangladeshi tropical storm
Sanchayan Nath shares his experiences of a tropical storm in Bangladesh.
The month of May can be very humid in…
Bangladesh's city slums burgeon with climate migrants
With climate-induced increase in inundation and salinity, instead of living in constant fear, fishers and farmers leave their coastal villages.…
