DHAKA: Growing up, it only took Hosnera Begum a quick stroll to the ponds near her home to fetch fresh water. These days, the 27-year-old must walk more than 2 km every day to gather 20 liters of safe drinking water for her family, as encroaching seawater increasingly contaminates supplies in her home village in Gabura, in southern Bangladesh. “In my childhood the problem was
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SHYAMNAGAR, Bangladesh With each tide, Abdus Satter watches the sea erode a little more of his life. His village of Bonnotola in southwestern Bangladesh, with its muddy roads and tin-roofed houses, was once home to over 2,000 people. Most were farmers like the 58-year-old Satter. Then the rising seas poisoned the…
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