Bangladesh: Easy Like Water
Solving Dhaka’s sanitation issue is simple. Steve Sapienza says the Bangladeshi capital needs only to provide slum residents clean water and worry less about the resources used to pay for it.
Sea level rising in Bangladesh brings unexpected challenges, increasingly forcing humans and tigers into common habitats.
Satkhira district nervously awaits the next "mega-cyclone."
As we continue production of "Easy Like Water," our film crew re-visited the solar floating schools, libraries, and adult education centers run by the Bangladeshi NGO
A year after their first visit, the Easy Like Water film crew re-visits the solar floating schools, libraries, and adult education centers run by the Bangladeshi NGO Shidhulai Swanirvar Sangstha.
On Bangladesh's river islands, villagers contend with treacherous flash flooding, yet depend on water for jute farming, commerce, transportation, and recreation.
Bangladesh is a horizontal place, and water seeking its own level is constantly re-writing the geography.
On the front lines of climate change, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development offers innovative education programs in Bangladesh.
Easy Like Water is a feature documentary about floating schools, solar power, and the fate of the earth.
Pulitzer Center journalist Steve Sapienza's, "Bangladesh reels from the impact of climate change," video airs 12/8, on Worldfocus.
Last year, rising tides destroyed more than 300 schools in Bangladesh leaving children with no place to learn.
Overwhelming global interest in COP15 ("Convention of Parties") led to a few glitches as conference attendees descended on Copenhagen over the weekend of Dec. 5-6. On Dec.
Climate change is front page news in Bangladesh on a near-daily basis, and the English-language newspaper The Daily Star is averaging two to three articles per day on the subject.
Bangladesh is a massive river delta, and river erosion is taking more than 100 sq. km. of land per year.
It is monsoon season in Bangladesh, making the delicate balance between water and land more tenuous than ever.
I am writing from the overnight ferry from Dhaka to Bhola island.
We will be heading off for Bangladesh on Aug. 22 to explore the "ground zero" of climate change and innovative adaptive strategies they are developing there.
Global warming will hit Bangladesh hard. Climate-related natural disasters already have this nation's 180 million inhabitants seeking higher ground.
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Stephen Sapienza is an award-winning news and documentary producer who has covered a wide range of human security stories, including the HIV crisis in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, child...
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Glenn Baker has produced more than 40 documentaries broadcast on PBS exploring global security issues. He produced and directed “Stand Up: Muslim American Comics Come of Age” for the PBS series “...