DHAKA, Bangladesh, Nov 24 (IPS) – Rising sea ranges, excessive local weather situations comparable to extreme storms confronted by Bangladesh, one of many main victims of anthropogenic local weather change, the nation is ready to be the worst sufferer from local weather change by 2025, far worse than every other nation.
Bangladesh, with a inhabitants of over 166 million, is imperilled because of its place between two key rivers, the Brahmaputra and Ganges. Many areas within the nation are additionally vulnerable to drought. As a growing nation Bangladesh doesn’t have sufficient monetary sources for protecting or reparative measures.
The picture story ‘Wave’ by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan, an award wining Bangladeshi picture journalist, captures pictures of people that face this disaster as a human drawback. Bangladesh is a small, overpopulated nation in Southeast Asia with primarily an agro-based economic system. Moreover, climatic hazards like cyclones, floods, drought, soil salinity, and river erosions are extra frequent these days. These two info contribute to the growing variety of local weather refugees pressured emigrate to the cities, worsening the socio-economic issues. The barrages constructed throughout the rivers contained in the border of India have resulted in each flooding and drying of the river beds in Bangladesh. Main rivers like Padma, Jamuna, Meghna, Brahmaputra, and smaller rivers within the coastal area erode when the water degree rises. As a result of extended droughts, the temperature is growing yearly at an alarming fee. Sadly, individuals cannot adapt to this quickly altering local weather and are on the point of socio-economic insecurity. The waves, whether or not current or absent, do not deliver any hope for these individuals. After they hit, they take away the precious land and lives. When the waves are gone, nothing is left however parched, cracked riverbeds.
A report on the influence of Farakka barrage on the human material. Manisha Banerjee, on behalf of the South Asian Community on Dams, Rivers, and Folks (SANDRP).
http://sandrp.in/dams/impct_frka_wcd.pdf