Mechanized sand extraction on the Someshwari River at Durgapur, Netrokona, NE Bangladesh, during the dry season (UAV photograph, March 2024; 25.160°N, 90.667°E). Dozens of cutter-suction dredgers mounted on floating platforms work the low-flow channel, and bamboo-supported pipelines convey the sand slurry to mesh screening frames and conical stockpiles on the exposed bar surface, where front-end wheel loaders transfer the sand to trucks for road…
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