{"id":13089,"date":"2020-01-20T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jan\/20\/the-river-is-our-home-bangladeshi-boatmen-mourn-their-receding-waters"},"modified":"2020-01-20T20:00:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T11:00:24","slug":"the-river-is-our-home-bangladeshi-boatmen-mourn-their-receding-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13089","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The river is our home&#8217;: Bangladeshi boatmen mourn their receding waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decreased flows caused by water-hungry neighbours, especially India, are damaging river communities<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>All photographs by Kaamil Ahmed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Holding his downturned palm level with his waist, Musana Robi Das indicates how tall he was when he started working on Bangladesh\u2019s rivers.<\/p>\n<p>As a child he helped his father ferry villagers across local waterways. Now a tall and spindly 50-year-old, he has had to abandon that life as a boatman. The waters now sit so low that his services are unnecessary. So the past decade has instead been spent repairing shoes inside a dimly lit wooden booth in the village market.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jan\/20\/the-river-is-our-home-bangladeshi-boatmen-mourn-their-receding-waters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decreased flows caused by water-hungry neighbours, especially India, are damaging river communities\u2022 All photographs by Kaamil AhmedHolding his downturned palm level with his waist, Musana Robi Das indicates how tall he was when he started working on B&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,847,65,462,59,972,61,463,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-employment","category-environment","category-environmental-sustainability","category-global-development","category-rivers","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sustainable-development","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions\/13090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}