DHAKA: Bangladesh points at the four-foot-high platform of gray clay he and his wife have just struggled to build. The mound is intended to keep their next home above ever-rising floodwaters. But even it won’t last long, he fears.
“Within the next 10 years, monsoon high tides will be flowing over this level,” he predicts.
With tidal floods fast worsening as a result of more intense rainfall and sea level rise, “this is the third time within 20 years we are moving our home higher,” complained Mr. Mondol, whose village lies in Khulna district, at the head of southwestern Bangladesh’s Sundarbans tidal forests.
Sea level rise and worsening storm surges are making life increasingly precarious in southern Bangladesh’s low-lying deltas, flooding homes and filling fields with salty water that keeps rice from growing.
