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the since the beginning of time melting glaciers in the himalayas have been feeding countless rivers. they pour out of the mountain range, running like veins throughout the south asian continent. the one of the most powerful is the drama to truck, which travels thousands of kilometers before crossing bangladesh and flowing into the bay of bingo. here the river is known as jim the, the juno creates and floods and many islands and its course

in ben gully, these ever shifting islands, sand bars are called chalk, derived from soda, which means wondering the 3000000 people who live on the island called themselves child us, but we don't migrate, they say the islands do. we just have to wonder along from june to september during the months to the rivers tides wash of fertile settlement that produces a bountiful harvest in the dry season. the floods provide both fish and joy to the child the but they also take knowing at the shore line of the old jobs flooding the islands and causing pain. the

like no man's. the child has moved from flooded islands to newly emerging ones. but they are used to this. they know the river gives them fertile soil on which they can grow and to work again. a life of construction, destruction, and reconstruction, the weakness dish. nothing over

the last model. no. see what you're saying is towards you. oh dear, didn't you catch anything that's all 5. careful. careful. roughly, that's enough for lunch. the news i have been talking to 33 year old. the heem shorter god isn't actually a fisherman. but a farmer together with his wife lea, a be gum, he feeds his 6 person household besides their 2 children, his younger brother and mother also live with the the

raw him and his neighbors live on child early. but in the middle of the june, the monsoons began months ago, and the river is knowing away at the island. but the title waves that usually flowed the jobs are not here this year, even in august the me. but for us, child has to be there as low as the cost and the blessing and here with $2000000.00 and now flows, which i believe her was actually everywhere. they were birds, schools, concrete building. and we had every day for 5 minutes. and then from the east, the river started pushing and ripping everything away. i was glad we'll do it and say i want to come is it sort of right here? a child could come up again and people could settle again. what's the use

or is it by end of the day, where a village of relief is now the moon used to float or to from big ships used to pass by wondering if i saw it myself as a child and the child early, but uh has now been stable for 12 years, but it is the exception early, but uh is one of a dozen charge that make up the gums, shut out, union district. not all the islands in the district have reached such an age every few years. jemina washes away some of the jobs only to later wash up new settlement elsewhere. the not far from the heem until recently lived. shoot us. i'm on the there only one or can be

seen now because juno has reclaimed the large parts of his former home. jim luna has taken over the shoot us i'm on a farmer, lived here with his family for 8 years and everybody kept over here was my home. i'm a piece of field was washed away with the property that kind of worried about me. it was a house over there was a neighbor. there was another the yeah was another friend of mine. 7 homes were here. the school that showed us a month son attends, must be demolished. the water is only a few meters away from its foundation. the rubble will be reused. building material

is pressure. it's not clear where the school will be rebuilt. for now, it remains closed. yeah, my, my son went to the school. my property is gone and now we are losing the school to the ca bubble into the other one that are some in the building. you see here, we built it 6 years ago, so i let them know we have to take it down to think of them they just before the school was some or else. then we have to take it down due to erosion and rebuild. it has tens of times we have to move at the school by the name of the monsoon season, and erosion go hand in hand. you never know which

island of the river will take next northward. perhaps the least child is only 4 years old. it doesn't make a particularly powerful impression, but farmers who don't have many fields often have no choice, but to settled here the cause. follow your mother. i mean, i've got 2 lives here. she is married and has 2 daughters. her husband, a c, or o dean khalifa is a farmer. unfortunately, some of his fields have flooded and he's no longer able to feed his family from

field work alone. he also sells goods at the market. the scale of the day we all have to live in a hot with the animals because we are afraid of thieves or robbers because the river is so closely up. there are often river pirates. here we are poor. we have a few animals. if the thieves and robbers take that away from us, how will we survive of the new zillow and it is it just last time the water was up to here up to the waist. it was very difficult to live here and the name, but then we moved to a neighbor's house for a few days and the flood hit us there too. then we had to build a rack up high to keep the animals away from the water. often we also slept on a boat and there was no gas. the water taxi

keams job relief, but is stable for the moment. the people here still feel safe from jemina and its powerful tides, but even they are not completely safe from the floods. is it that isn't we don't want i'm glad that's mine. i agree with that myself. it's growing. well. it dropped out that is that the, this rice is brand new thanks to technical development and we can try a new varieties, jo and look at the daughter who just see it and they grow very well. hi. can be used as high on the album when i was a child, you could only have is just the feel like this. a big problem. 50 is hold on. hold on would be a problem at all. so if we did

830 the, the job and they came up from the river 12 years ago. but well, people have become wise on we'll get to go to court a whole god because somebody plant trees immediately to and get this oil and the level one up. you pull in. augusta, definitely 7 though. and we can eventually sell the trees later. is that one right? as a business in this foundation we built in 2011 ever from after that we had to wait until the settle i'm. this is why is that the edible doesn't mind when the water comes onto the property here? we have to bring extra soil here, like with the boat, and then we build a hill. and then we put the animals on this hill here that can both have a lucky and for cooking. you can see the top, and of course it gets covered with water, finding police mazda, and then we build a high rock. and on top of this, again, the new stove. we tried to keep the wood dry, and on top of it, we sits in cook. i often tell him that maybe we shouldn't move to the main lands,

but he doesn't want to leave the chalk kind of. he loves the child more than anything the mainland does. that's the question for him. i'm glad that i tell her why didn't you get some money from your parents? why don't you get 500000 and tucker will buy a plot of land to day. but she caught she dreams of a house on the mainland. we just didn't have the money. i got a whole night ready to go to the flow that about him and his wife aliya are busy all day like her husband. she's educated. but here on the jobs, there is no opportunity for women to put their schooling to use a lia supports her husband in his work and earns extra money as it seems to the neighbors by their clothes, from her instead of on the mainland, the

because little harvesting takes place during the monsoons many showed us live off of fishing during the rainy season. but in recent years, the highly sought after catch has been dwindling. the the. 8 the, there are many different kinds of fish and practiced showed us can even catch them

with their bare hands. the big it is the, the farmers no longer use the fish solely to feed their families at the port of golden da sheet, they bring their fish to be auctioned off, supplementing their livelihood on the team to sometimes visit the market and goby not cheap, nothing to me here, the

46400. 60 anyone? 7400. 7500. anyone? 500. 15515 nobody. and he's gone for $500.00. the team brings the expensive fish home for supper. the law, he can still trust that his land is safe from the rising waters. but not far away. it's a different story. short of some on has given up his land and a store in parts of his house and his relatives, the

yeah, all the individual pieces of a complete time to go to bed. if you was of another hunt. i also put them on top. the say go to the find out how i can buy when we take down no rebuild. uh huh. so it takes a lot of people logistically. it's a big effort that also costs money. what assume it is very tedious. was starting monitor the vehicle, some of the buses, but we towers help each other. i mean that if i decide to take down my house today and tell the neighbors they come right away, i mean i want to have decided when, if i hear that another neighbor is relocating whether he tells me all knowledge and i go there and help take down the hunt, transported away and rebuild it is how people tired of newborn car launch hours help each of the starting one minus that optimal desk.

the pseudo some on and his family have to stay with relatives until they find a safe place for a new home. the river is rising. the

as unstable as the childs are, the land and farm land on them are still surveyed and entered into the land register. all showed us keep their title deeds in case there flooded land reappears. perhaps this time should have some on we'll get lucky and yamuna. we'll give him back the land and took the this is what it looks like before the flooded waters arrive. the green grass land is food for cattle. but in order to cultivate the land, the grass has to disappear. usually the flood takes care of that. when it doesn't, the farmers have to destroy the grass with chemicals in order to be able to plant. the

cute is a particularly hardy crop, but it can only be grown in the rainy season. the, there's a reason it's called the golden thread of bangladesh. it drives even when flooded for the jude water is a friend. it likes stagnant water, the more brackish the better after harvesting, the stones must be left to soften in the water. so the threads can be cold. the, the remaining parts of the plant are used as building and burning material. the

material dude, such as about one year old, the farmers earn about $400.00 to $500.00 euro is from the harbor. significantly more than the $100.00 to $200.00 euro's they would otherwise earn from us. not with products like dude and rice, the cho does have adapted to the rhythm of the dry end during the season. when it comes to electricity,

they must also adapt to the rules of nature. solar panels are easy to use and the mobile. until a few years ago, expensive oil was the only source of energy for the child us. today children grow up with solar energy as the norm for 6 year old chic, it's common place the the that he was brother or own, the chicago even runs his laptop off the panels. the computer is connected to the internet through his mobile phone.

when you are done here, could you please wait the patty field? okay. i have to go to a meeting or go away and when you, when you want to i get my product. graduated well from school. farming is his great fashioning. he didn't want to do anything else when the plumbing device that i want to work as a web designer from home. but it was you who were doing the brother supports me to learn this professional medicare with to buy all this equipment. so this is supposed to be financially is helping us with a visual visit rush. and what else is she knows here, covers it out to them, a lot of ideas. i get a get with the one thing that we don't love economical image the honey. but i don't have any training and web design, so i follow the work of professional web designers in the country. and then even the internationally known ones that you read the books, the follow the law under cheap the most i me the, the, to the board been why event?

i think the young people on the charles very small. now that if i can get them together, i would like to start a company to provide services like this online, but it's always been a johnson. the unusually late in early september, the title floods have finally come. normally the child as expects 3 tidal waves between june and the end of august. but this time, the rising water is come only once. here to climate change is evident, the

within a few days, the flood waters reach dangerous levels. as the river takes its toll, no one's thinking about the fertile settlement. it breaks. even though the floods will ensure to a mountable harvest for the child us in the coming dry season. the water has been standing here in the field for 3 days. 7 days ago it started to rise . first, the river was swollen and then in the last 3 days the water ended from here. if the water just continues to rise folder rice will be lost on what it is a good. i figured it was the i don't know if i'm lucky enough to save this rice crop. it's growing so beautiful in the bottle. here at the finish.

me see find the water. he's close to l. ya. now my name isn't when the children play here, they could fall into a hole. it's dangerous. for the i want to take a bath papa hyphen because you know, you just had a shower when a good day they loaded. well, that's how it is a life you in a few days ago we were working on this part us. everything was to drive it off and now we are walking in the water that are what the water sometimes the water comes up to a chest for over a head. sometimes there is even a current to you will die, come grow. he seems relaxed about the flooding. aliya is more concerned. the ground near their home is still dry. but if the water

enters the yard every day, life will become much more difficult. as evidenced in this footage from the past quarter century, the child us have had to develop extraordinary survival skills to adapt to the flood floods which the child us they are increasingly worse due only in part to nature. a bridge was built here 25 years ago. forcing the once 14 kilometer wide river and to a narrower channel, the child se then, until the bridge was built, the floods were not as dramatic as they are today. the,

at this time there was only one tidal wave in the monsoon season. it left behind huge amounts of fertile soil, but had to be till the dry season has long since begun. now, 5 months later, its harvest time. the but uh she uh, jo mode. it goes to a to me uh,

but uh she uh, not to be long done that the hard. no, but sheila, i'm going to go look, gone all monday had the bus to come back from you but he was not lucky with his rice field. the water destroyed the crop, but he was able to save his other fields of the the,

the landscape which until now was a disaster area. suddenly looks very different. it now gives the impression one can live well here. it is a different world. but distances that could be covered quickly by boat or water taxi in the monsoon season. now take much longer the

in the monsoon season, the water is overwhelming. now it is scarce. let farmers desperately need it to irrigate their fields. the soil is still wet in some places and good for planting. rice. rice can be grown all year. what must be harvested before the floods come the

it's not just the rice that grows here. throughout the dry season, the child as are busy harvesting one field after another at ground knots, mays, sweet potatoes, mustard, and cory end or keep it that he busy the agent number to bobby, that's literally what i'm doing. i actually think there is a river here. all these floods a like a blessing for us. i'm wonderful because the more often the flooded comes, the better it is for our farm and i want the more we can grow. so to do this. but the thing for us to go to a level 5 working more, this is just the reason when the monsoons come was that when it's all about this is l farm land. that these fields only lie on plants. if the 2 or 3 more don't over

the just where they are flooded, the finding, peggy, only during this time can we not told you that the ticket then when everything is verbal when it but it, that's why i think we live in the river. but it doesn't seem like the key i'm of the portuguese immigrant into soil here has a big advantage. we don't necessarily always need the plants. sometimes you just say send for the, for example here, this oil and the see how the peanuts a thriving problem is. but you can see how dry of the soil is good, bottle front of your business and then the that he was neighbor showed us i'm on has been lucky. but jeff, port island has reappeared from the river. he owns a plot of land on it. the soil is nice and high and it seems to be protected from the erosion that cost him hudson fields during the last 2 months soon. now he's

building the foundations for his new home. here it will need to be high enough to stay afloat during the next flood from the ports inbox. now we're moving from the eastern to the western side to solve the problems. we can actually make a good living from farming and bank, or call and check from them. but this erosion, the pro body by that will just say kind of model by example. this house that i have to rebuild here. it will cost me almost a $1000.00 euros altogether. i could have saved this money. i think it's what i'm forced to spend. is it a problem with that's the problem for us. the child really have to do it every 3 or 4 years. the river needs to weigh my property. why do i cannot keep my savings that i bought in? so instead of talking about the,

[000:00:00;00] the, even though there are no trees here yet to fortify the island, the new plot looks promising. the river is a safe distance away. i should have some on plan to move ahead of time and all the neighbors are pitching in the things are looking good for showed us i'm on at the moment, but no one knows when joe no, we'll get hungry again. and start knowing on the shore line

the most of the told us are developed muslims praying 5 times a day however, is something very few do. but no farmer wants to miss the spiritual chancing at one of his time. in late february the let me be to school or the teacher. what did he say? that i should study hard. i invited him to our house.

who did you see the house? i think so, but check because of the bugler drive by playing the broad. that's right. and what's that that to you alone? you look see these are off to you. yeah. do you know what that's made? ok. well, banana tree, right. whatever. and what did they put on this roster though? is it that she yeah, that would be and to look at the go, that's the boys just the see how sketchy is. she's afraid of falling into the water . finding a way to like, uh yeah, but i'm not afraid of the water. the, the child of north port has also survived the monsoon. but now there's a lot to do in the fields. i mean, those husband associated with dean can take care of their younger daughter. she

doesn't have to travel far to work. this means i mean i can take care of the older daughter schooling and have more time for house work. the other girl said with my father was a capital trader, as a child who used to take me with him, and i watched him alone, how the business works level. i didn't finish school, so i have to on my money. as a salesman, i managed a little bit until the 7th grade. my parents married me off so i couldn't get in, you know, that's a lot of people that are so dull and we are poor child on the with the know do the girls get married off quite early,

but if and when you're married and you can't go to the 1st because then you have to work at home, but that's a little i would have had a good chance to finish school. my parents made an effort, but i blew i to the room. so probably one of those are the states like you are blind, even though your eyes are healthy, the people who have education or they can see properly, they can understand everything and do a lot of things with their lives. everything is much easier for the and those who have no education at all. they are like blind people with healthy. ah, that's how it is. there are even people who can't write their own name or the pay i can home educate my children up to great stuff. i never know better just because of of the i don't think another bundle. no, no, no, no, no,

that's enough. ready or wait until next time. here, i want to take one more minute that's enough. and i want another one. you wouldn't make it. i well the, the dry season has brought a good harvest and some security. the rice dogs are a precious commodity because they feed the most important thing of all the animals . they have to be stored outside so that the floods won't reach the papa. look, look what i have here. my goodness, so much. where do i put it? bring it here please. for the for 6 year old chic life on the child is still an adventure. he doesn't know what's in store for the family. the monsoons, even with it, a time of uncertainty,

will begin again the even though the family knows how to deal with the rhythm of nature, there is no secure foundation for an easy life. aliyah knows that the move you have to cross the river here every time to bring in the harvest. that's going to be hard again. because you did you grow probably the last you know, even further away and i think that was very exhausting. yeah. hm. when you were dancing and we wanted to keep up and well, i don't know yet how i'll make it this year. are you coming home is that is no, i don't want to. why not doing the okay. did you foster vote? why don't you get some of the, the,

the of them we've got to pay more lower, you know, the women who work in the fields carry a huge stacks of pain on the, when the used to it. so i've never done that was up in the diamond fiber. why shouldn't you you can try it sometime. they've already got a home. no, i don't want to as i'm supposed to do everything myself or what, who else has? and then when do i go then i was hoping that's at some point and we would live on the main them so that the children could go to school. do you have assets there on the mainland a galaxy? i thought, well, you don't want to give up your fields here. you also couldn't your job in the city just to plow on the charles all the time. but that's not enough for allowing it a negative. we'll see. one way, i guess you want me to toilet line in town and send you money so you can have a good life to sort of then keep digging into sam's. you don't need to go up. but i tell that to your sons, because they should make money on the mainland and due to life the. i'll stay here

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