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A villager collects drinking water from a water desalination plants in Bonbibi Tala in Satkhira, Bangladesh on October 5, 2021. Salinity in soil has increased by 26% over the past 35 years, and continues to do so every year. Officials working in the Shyamnagar region admit that paucity of funds was preventing the government from building new desalination plants that would convert saltwater to fresh water. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)
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