KHURIA, Bangladesh, September 18, 2009 (AFP) - At the end of each year, after the monsoon rains, Noor Hossain, Bangladesh, on the delta of the continent, and remove his houseboat. This time, he does not come back.
Gold River, about 800.000 of the Gypsies, local bedey, who for generations lived on in May and December, the National Waterways, and the rest of the world known for years.
But now, he decided to abandon nomadic life, for he says that the river has increasingly erratic and impossible to navigate - which experts attribute to climate change and upstream development.
Hossain, only a "Lunghi" fabric wrapped around his waist to give birth, it is four to eight months of the season that he and his vast delta of children and families across two rickety bamboo houseboats borne.
"Many rivers, canals and rivers drying up. We can not go to remote areas and do not, we are not a bus," said Hossain, 48, who earns a bit of diving in the women's bath rao jewels.
It catches the most fish for the cost of his own family, when his wife and two daughters, some laws are the largest providers of revenue, and a souvenir shop selling herbal treatments for pain in the teeth of the offering.
Although I have cast, bedeys the bottom of society, and almost all are illiterate and desperately poor.
They are mostly skilled snake charmers or ornaments, traditional medicine and cosmetics sales stay in the village. Bangladeshis believe they have the ability to hide some of the treatment.
Grambangla Unnayan Committee, and as a charitable organization, but, a few decades in Bangladesh bedey people, disappear in the annual migration to their land and water can be excluded.
"The country moved to a faster rate. Going on 15 years of age, has been created based on all bedeys water. Very soon we're Gypsies, we have not any on the river," said AKM Maksud, the main charity.
In the past decade alone has 250.000 bedeys forced out of the water, and predicted that 90 percent of the land for Gypsies within two years will live permanently.
Retired history professor Jainal Abedin Khan, who has written books bedeys has said that I was coming 17 century when the area is part of the Mughal Empire.
"They just want to look back now in Myanmar, but they moved through the delta," he said. "They are a big part of the folklore, and the source of many myths and legends."
A low-lying Bangladesh is the largest international network of 700 rivers of water, tributaries and canals 24,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) of land cover by seven percent, crossed.
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority, said that today, only 16,000 km of waterways are navigable during the rainy season and the dry months from November to April, 6,000 km.
International scientists believe that Bangladesh - the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, the mighty sea, the empty - is the most corrupt countries in climate change.
The Government of the United Kingdom that specializes in the Imdadul increased pollution and climate change, with unpredictable rains, the river was the main reason has been achieved.
"This year in June, when we hardly had any rain in a drought, we were coming up to the heavy rainfall last August the weather is definitely changing and inconsistent rain - heavy .. one month, the next dry - affects our waterways," said Haque.
The right to extract water from the rivers and streams are drying up, large-scale industrial waste and unplanned construction of dams the river, he added.
Experts say many of the social pressures and cultural environments encountered bedeys.
"There is no glory, they want to sell. Orthodox medicine does not like is that the demand for their products," said Habibur Rahman, Professor of Sociology at Dhaka University.
Rahman added that the Gypsies are often Muslim traditional society can not fight in the mix.
"Many people find it difficult to complete because they lack education and skills - and if we lose our history and culture of our people is a part of bedey we lost," he warned.
His attitude Soud Khan, 52, a former village in the capital, Dhaka Khuria bedey thousands of Gypsies living in shared with those who are living.
"All of our predecessors used to live on a boat, wandering everywhere. Boat was our only home, and our transport. The boat was a good day, but now we are forced to leave," he said.
"Continents are working hard to get. We are the most certain, but could not qualify bedeys. Of course, we want a water well in life, but if we are not continents, it is, I'm not sure.
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