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Life Along a Tide-Soaked Coast

November 12, 2009 | Pulitzer Center
By
Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler, Bangladesh
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Life along the Buriganga River. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Life along the Buriganga River. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Life along the Buriganga River. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Life along the Buriganga River. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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A farmer along the low tide-soaked coast. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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A child dives into the Buriganga River outside Dhaka. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Fishermen in the Bay of Bengal. Scientsits predict that a future rise in sea levels could swallow up to 20% of the country. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Men from the Hindu community outside the development program area that lack embankments to protect them from the tidal surge. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Many of those displaced by river erosion in coastal areas move to these low-lying lands forming from the silt carried by rivers that begin in the Himalayas. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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Women in a rural village marketplace. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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The Bangladeshi government is developing newly formed land in the Bay of Bengal, building water pumps and sanitation ponds. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

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A Bangladeshi girl retrieving water. Image by Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and William Wheeler. Bangladesh, 2009.

In these slides, Anna-Katarina Gravgaard and Bill Wheeler travel through rural Bangladesh, examining the lives of those intimately impacted by river erosion and rising waters along the low-tide coast.