Stock Photo - Soil, water and the environment become polluted by industrial wastes. In Bangladesh climate change is a serious problem, where it tops among the 32 countries at ""extreme risk"". Bangladesh is going ahead with an ambitious plan to reclaim land from the sea to help relocate people who have lost their homes to sea level rise, erosion and extreme weather. . Climate change-linked natural disasters are common in Bangladesh, with cyclones and storm surges displacing huge numbers of people. . â. œRiver erosion alone claims about 20,000 acres of land in Bangladesh every year,â. . said Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud. . That leaves up to 200,000 people homeless each year, according to a 2013 study by the Refugee and Migratory Movements Research Unit at the University of Dhaka and the Sussex Centre for Migration Research at the University of Sussex in Britain. . Now Bangladesh is taking back some of that land. The government plans to use the natural movement of sediment through the countryâ. . s rivers to build new land on which to house displaced communities. . In June, the government signed a deal with the government of the Netherlands â. “ another low-lying nation â. “ to cooperate on land reclamation efforts. Under the partnership, the Netherlands will conduct a feasibility study, and develop and implement land reclamation programmers in Bangladesh. .