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Villagers make a dam with mud in plastic bags to protect their only road in Pratap Nagar, that lies in the Shyamnagar region, in Satkhira, Bangladesh on October 5, 2021. In 1973, 0.833 million hectares were affected by the encroaching seawater, accelerated by more frequent cyclones and higher tides, that has contaminated water supplies. That's bigger than the U.S. state of Delaware. That increased to 1.02 million hectares in 2000, and to 1.056 million hectares in 2009, according to Bangladesh’s Soil Resources Development Institute. (Photo by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Photo)
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