
Sylhet, Bangladesh – Using a plastic dustpan, Kolpona Akter is busy sloughing water out of her home in Shahjalal Upasahar, a lower-income neighbourhood in northeastern Bangladesh’s Sylhet town.
“It [water] was waist-deep last week. All my furniture is ruined. My oven got damaged, I can’t even cook,” 38-year-old Akter told Al Jazeera on Tuesday.