Boatman Bhikhan Mukhiya paddles towards a road embankment which was breached by rising floodwaters near the village of Dekha Batraulia in east...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Boatman Bhikhan Mukhiya paddles towards a road embankment which was breached by rising floodwaters near the village of Dekha Batraulia in east Champaran. The state's poor maintenance of embankments in this flood sensitive area is a charged political issue in the region.This is in the province of Bihar which was devastated by the worst flooding in living memory which has submerged thousands of villages and huge swathes of farmland in northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. In Bihar alone more than 515 people have perished and more than 16 million people in 7,972 villages have been affected. At least two million people have displaced and are forced to live outdoors on higher ground. These floods were caused by the sort of extreme and unpredictable weather that scientists have been predicting will become more frequent as a consequence of global warming. | Location: M (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)"}