Bangladesh 'still flooded after Cyclone Aila'
27 August 2009
Some 300,000 people
in Bangladesh are still homeless three months after Cyclone Aila
hit the country, it has been reported.
According to Oxfam head of research Duncan Green, five
million people were affected by the storm and many still live among
the wreckage in homes that remain flooded or exposed to
flooding.
Salt water brought in by high tide every day is also damaging
crops and trees in the area, making it difficult to repair flood
barriers until the rain dies down.
Mr Green reported from the country: "Bangladesh is a land of 150
million people where millions live at, or in some cases below, sea
level.
"Every centimetre of sea level rise - and it's currently rising
at four to eight millimetres per year - has huge human
consequences."
He added that many politicians and political activists are
calling for serious action on climate change to protect the
Bangladeshi people.
Oxfam has been fighting climate change since its Weather Report
publication was released in 1983.
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