File photo: Floodwater has inundated a village at Louhajang upazila in Munshiganj, making access to food and safe water extremely difficult for the villagers. A total of 160 upazilas in the country have been affected by the floods that set in during the last week of June, and is yet to subside fully, said a bulletin of the DGHS. People in Kurigram, Gaibandha, Madaripur, Sirajganj, Tangail, Faridpur, and Netrokona were the worst sufferers from the deluge. Meanwhile, Bangladesh is one of the hotspots for a series of floods in the world, a latest study said, noting that 250 million coastal dwellers will face rising floods globally. In the next 80 years, flooding around the planet’s land masses is likely to rise by almost 50%, endangering many millions of coastal dwellers.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 30, 2020 12:22 UTC