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Bangladesh: In search of fresh water

By Adam Goff

22 April 2009

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Shajhan Siraj and his brothers from Gabura race against the rising tide as they seek to launch their boats into the sea. The boats are laden with water which takes them between two and three hours to collect each day

(Image: © Munem Wasif / Agence VU / Courtesy Prix Pictet)

Bangladesh has a complex and increasingly difficult relationship with water. Among the factors contributing to this are climate change, catastrophic flooding, coastal erosion and the pollution of drinking wells by natural arsenic.

Now photographer has brought to light another growing problem that is already affecting hundreds of…

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