Saline Water: painful story of south-west region of Bangladesh

Every event has a hidden background and some time those causes worst. Change also follow the rule. No matter what, it can be stopped. Today whole world is thinking about the rapid change. By this way our known environment is changing without any notice. The sea water level is rising along with the temperature. For this massive change our known rivers landscape has changing. Tide in the upper region became slower. Cyclone, flood, overheat is almost our daily companion. And the greatest creation of God, human is struggling with those hazards. It is increasing day by day. The environmentalist says, a large portion of land will be gone under water in the next decade. Devastating hit of recent Cyclone Sidar, Rasmi, Bizli, Aila is just a symptom and warned us about the future.

We are the poorest people of the thirds world country, Bangladesh. More over, we are the neglected people of South west region of the country. Not only we are neglected by the government but also by the nature. For the global reason we had to suffer much for the natural disaster.

War for water !! Yes. The history reminded us. In the past the world has seen this type of war. And in the future war for food and fresh water will not be in the fiction. It has already began, the people of Daccop, Koyra, Paickgacha, Batiaghata and Dumuria upazila of Khulna District of Bangladesh are already suffering for fresh water. They are willing sell or do any thing for their right on fresh water. Already public movement on this issue is formed and some people had died.

Basically, unplanned shrimp cultivation, disturbance of natural flow of river, destroying of forest, scattered and unplanned dam bring the miseries one step ahead. For this, recently people of the region suffered much than usual by Sider and Aila.

Now we are facing the silent cry of the suffered people of the region. But how long, how long it will be silent? If this situation stays longer, the hidden vocal will raise like volcano. Like the ancient mariner there is water every where but not a drop to drink. The saline water has taken away all environment friendly assets, fisheries, food grain, forest, birds. Whole environment is changed of the globe.

Mother Nature keeps us like her children for billions of years. And what we have done? Destroying it badly though we know she never forgives any thing. She will try to make balance by distorting existing things and creating different one. Recently natural events warning us, she is disturbed by human and giving us the chance to recover our status. But if we keep destroying this way, she will be crueler and take revenge on us. If that happen what will we do?