Climate change impacts in the Bay of Bengal

Since Bangladesh is a riverine and disaster prone country, the different types of disaster like flood, cyclone, seasonal storm, high salinity, tidal bores, and river bank erosion and so on occur continuously due to the climate change that are mostly hitting the coastal belt region and offshore islands.

The project area, Sharsa village of Dhandia Union of Tala Upazilla under Satkhira district, is one of the remote, highly backward, disaster prone and neglected areas which is a offshore islands of the Bay of Bengal and situated on the bank of the Kapotakkho River which is silted and is no longer the navigation power it once was as there is no evacuation of water flow in this river. For the adverse effect of climate change this village is now under water and due to overflowing the rotten and impure water of Kapathakkey River a vast extended land of Tala Upazilla under Satkhira district has been inundated. About four hundred families in eight villages have fully been trapped with water and about 200 acres of land in Sharsa village are now under water. Many betel plants, vegetables fields and seasonal crops are under water and the people of this area are living in miserable condition because so many waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, fever and dysentery are breaking out in an epidemic form. Here water and sanitation system has collapsed totally. The project area is submerged under 2-3 feet water. The farmers of the project area are very helpless and vulnerable because of the water logging. The people of these localities have made communication and shelter by making bamboo and tree. About 32 families have been migrated from their homesteads and taken shelter in their relatives and in the town and they are trying to provide their livelihood in an alternative way.

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Md. Mizaur Rahman
Executive Director
Integrated Development Organization (IDO)
Sagardari, Keshabpur, Jessore , Bangladesh