Khulna, Bangladesh -March 24, 2009: Bangladeshi women walking on dead Kopotakkho River at Khulna in Bangladesh. The navigability of Kopotakkho decreas

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Khulna, Bangladesh -March 24, 2009: Bangladeshi women walking on dead Kopotakkho River at Khulna in Bangladesh. The navigability of Kopotakkho decreased so severely that an adult can easily walk through the river. Kopotakkho has lost its capacity of carrying water. With the start of monsoon, Khulna's Paikgacha, Satkhira's Tala Sadar, and villages beside Kopotakkho in Kolaroa, Jessore's Monirampur and Keshabpur upazila go under water. Millions of people become waterlogged. Thousands of acres of land remain uncultivated. The Kopotakkho along with its branches and sub-branches drains about 3,315 sq km of Kushtia, Jessore and Khulna districts. The total length of the river is about 260 km. The Kopotakkho River is now facing extinction.

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