IMPACT OF SALINITY ON THE LIVELIHOODS OF THE COASTAL PEOPLE IN BANGLADESH: AN ASSESSMENT ON POST....

Climate change-induced salinity and seasonal (October to May) salty water intrusion, combined with a major cyclone that started in the Bay of Bengal, have impacted the people, livelihoods, and flood plains of Bangladesh's south and south-western regions. Currently, due to the brackish condition of the soil, the lower delta is expanding its area to the south-eastern and northern parts of the delta. This study focuses on the assessment of saline water's impact variables in the aftermath of deadly cyclones Sidr, Aila, and especially super storm Amphan, which struck Jammu Island in West Bengal, India on May 20, 2020, and traversed Bangladesh on May 20-21, 2020. The worst of the storm hit Bangladesh's Satkhira and Khulna districts, with storm speeds ranging from 60 to 90 kilometres per hour and heavy tidal inundation. The livelihoods, irrigations, biodiversity, cleanliness, and reproductive health threats to women and adolescent girls of the tidal flats of Koyra and Shymnagar next to the Sundarban in Bangladesh are the focus of this study rather than diagnostics. For the analysis of the collected data, methodological applications in both qualitative and quantitative methodologies are applied. This study demonstrates how difficult it was for the people to comprehend the effects of saline water that had snowed under on Amphan's day. However, in the aftermath of the typhoon, it had become one of their greatest sources of suffering. Furthermore, human-caused salinity, primarily the stagnation of saline water on cultivable land due to the influence of that locality, makes it difficult to grow shrimp crops. So, according to this article, it will be extremely difficult to protect livelihoods, lower the fertility of cultivable land, and cause health impacts in women and adolescents in the low terrain of Koyra and Shymnagar if saline water stagnation cannot be reduced in the long run.

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