Bangladesh's Yearly Flooding

A family walks through a river to get into town, on 25 July 2008 in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Bangladesh, is considered the most crowded nation on earth, experiences significant yearly flooding due to the geography of the nation.

Bangladesh sits at the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers and most of its land is less than 40 feet above sea level.

According to numerous environmental agency reports, if sea waters were to rise three feet in the next 50 years, one third of Bangladesh's coastline could be flooded displacing 20 million Bangladeshis.