Field Notes: The Soil Embankments of Gazipara, Bangladesh

Pacific Standard Staff
December 8, 2017
Gazipara, Bangladesh: In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma and Shakbaria rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.
In southern Bangladesh, soil embankments protect rise paddies from the Kapotaksma (left) and Shakbaria (right) rivers during the rainy season, but the heavy storm surges frequently destroy them.

This photograph originally appeared in the December/January 2018 issue of Pacific Standard.

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