Overloaded passenger ferry with pilgrims on the Dhaka River, Port of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Overloaded passenger ferry with pilgrims on the Dhaka River, Port of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Passenger Canoes in the port of Dhaka in front of a passenger ferry, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Men carrying a very heavy metal plate to the river, shipwreck cemetery (ship breaking yard), Port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Men in their canoes waiting for new clients, Port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Passenger Canoes in the port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Men in their canoes waiting for new clients, Port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Passenger Canoes in the port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Passenger Canoes in the port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Man rowing his canoe, Port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

A Bangladeshi woman washing clothes beside the river in Dhaka (Dacca), Bangladesh, Asia

Latrines on the river bank in rough land grazed by cows in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Huge river ferry in the port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Rowing boat in the busy port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Laden barge in the busy port of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Asia

Dhaka, Bangladesh - August 2011: Dusk at a floating tea shop along the busy Buriganga River (Old Ganges). The heavily polluted river in the centre of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is a vital transportation hub in one of the busiest cites in Asia.

Bangladesh, Dhaka Division, Tangail Sadar Upazila, Mother and children on the impoverished chars, beside the Brahmaputra river.

Bangladesh, Dhaka Division, Keraniganj Upazila, Overcrowded boat travelling down a tributary river.,