Water Trap { 19 images } Created 29 Jul 2013
Water Trap
Bangladesh is trapped between the Himalayas in the north and the intruding Bay of Bengal to the south. Bangladesh is most exaggerated to natural disasters due to the frequency of extreme climate events and its highly dense population. Floods are frequent and cause the greatest economic and human losses to the country.
Climate change in Bangladesh affects more people in more different areas with more vulnerability every year. In 2011, 150 villages of 12 unions under Tala upazila of Satkhira district have been water trapped as rain-fed and saline water from the Kapotakka River entered the whole area, overflowing the banks of the silted river. Over 50,000 families have taken shelter in the makeshift houses and schools on high lands in the flood affected Tala upazila area. Thousands of families have been devastated due to the effects of the flooding. A vast number of ultra-poor people are stranded on embankments, with no access to food, drinking water and shelter. Even though people don’t have place left to bury dead bodies. Also Water logging also causes sufferings to the people living in other parts of the town due to poor drainage system. With outbreak of diarrhea, skin diseases and other intestinal diseases. Economy of people of this area have already broke down- they lost their crops, cattle’s, job; even though a daily one time food is too hard task for them to fulfill.
Bangladesh is trapped between the Himalayas in the north and the intruding Bay of Bengal to the south. Bangladesh is most exaggerated to natural disasters due to the frequency of extreme climate events and its highly dense population. Floods are frequent and cause the greatest economic and human losses to the country.
Climate change in Bangladesh affects more people in more different areas with more vulnerability every year. In 2011, 150 villages of 12 unions under Tala upazila of Satkhira district have been water trapped as rain-fed and saline water from the Kapotakka River entered the whole area, overflowing the banks of the silted river. Over 50,000 families have taken shelter in the makeshift houses and schools on high lands in the flood affected Tala upazila area. Thousands of families have been devastated due to the effects of the flooding. A vast number of ultra-poor people are stranded on embankments, with no access to food, drinking water and shelter. Even though people don’t have place left to bury dead bodies. Also Water logging also causes sufferings to the people living in other parts of the town due to poor drainage system. With outbreak of diarrhea, skin diseases and other intestinal diseases. Economy of people of this area have already broke down- they lost their crops, cattle’s, job; even though a daily one time food is too hard task for them to fulfill.
