🌊 Bengali Delta Communities

Bengali Delta Communities

Millions inhabit the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta—the world's largest river delta and most flood-prone region. They face annual monsoon flooding, cyclones (1970 Bhola cyclone killed 500,000), storm surges, riverbank erosion, and sea level rise. Living on chars (shifting river islands), amphibious architecture, flood-adaptive agriculture, and centuries of flood survival knowledge characterize adaptation to one of Earth's most dynamic and hazardous floodplains where land and water constantly reshape each other.