More than 7m people live in Bangladesh’s “char” districts—flood-prone lands where islands of silt and sand form, vanish and reform in the currents. Clever design is helping these communities to adapt
Just beyond the fields, one channel of the Jamuna, as the mighty Brahmaputra river is known in Bangladesh, flows past. The soils of Gaibandha are rich with the silt that the river has carried down for millennia. The Jamuna’s waters are a crucial reassurance during times of drought.
Between June and October, the rivers will burst their banks; the largely flat countryside can sit underwater for weeks. At times, the currents run at over ten knots . Riverine islands made of silt and sand known assome several kilometres long—form, vanish and reform in an endless cycle of erosion and accretion. NowMore than 7m people live in thedistricts of Bangladesh, along a crease between water and solidity, seeking out of impermanence its opposite.
Friendship, a non-profit organisation, takes a more intuitive approach, one that was inspired by a seaplane trip to the remoterby the company’s founder, Runa Khan, and Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury, an architect. Mr Chowdhury, who won the prestigiouschars
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