The women losing their hair because of the climate crisis
By Paul Homewood
h/t Patsy Lacey
The silliest climate story of the week must be this from the Independent:
Women in south Asia are becoming silent victims of an alarming side effect of the climate crisis as sources of clean water for drinking and bathing become more and more scarce – the loss of their hair.
In the coastal regions of Bangladesh, where over half of the water is tainted with salt and pollutants, women are walking back-breaking distances to fetch slightly safer water for drinking.
But with clean water being such a precious resource, women are bathing in hard water, which is not just leading to infections but is also causing them to lose their hair, laying bare the deeper wounds inflicted by the climate crisis.
In the Satkhira region in southwestern Bangladesh, where residents rely solely on rice crops and fishing for their livelihood, women say they are losing hair at an alarming rate. Some are worried about premature baldness, while others are selling their hair to vendors in an attempt to make ends meet.
“Women in the Satkhira region are living without the basics of clean water, decent toilets, and good hygiene, and the climate crisis is making it worse,” Anindita Hridita, programme lead on climate resilience at WaterAid Bangladesh, tells The Independent.
“They say continued exposure to contaminated water sources is not only causing dangerous waterborne diseases but also robbing them of their hair, an added layer of injustice in an already dire situation.”
Hridita and her team travelled through the region for days, collecting stories from women in the villages of Satkhira who are suffering through the multifaceted effects of the climate crisis.
“The water I bathe in causes my skin to get very dry, and I often get blisters,” shares Shyamoli Munda, a rice and fish farmer from Bhetkali village in Satkhira. “The blisters sometimes get so dry they bleed.”
In reality, access to safe water has markedly improved in recent years in Bangladesh:
But the idea that Bangladeshi women would ever have bathed in scarce drinking water is absurd – just the sort of thing a dopey Independent reporter would believe! Since time immemorial, most would bathe in rivers or ponds, where such were available.
There is no evidence that climate change has made the slightest difference to any of this, or that similar problems did not occur in the past.
Even Independent readers seem to have realised this is a non-story, as there is only one comment on the article, which probably hits the nail on the head:
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Yeah, things used to be great in Bangladesh, before this damn Climate Crisis™.
Colonialism is acceptable if saves one woman’s hair.
spent 3 years in the Bangladesh coal mining industry. There is no chuffing climate change, the rice paddies are wet, its hot in summer and chilly in winter ( 8 or 9 deg at night)
Bathing in ‘hard’ water causes your hair to fall out? Should I sue South East Water or sell what little remains?
Yes, bathing in salty water makes you go bald! Nobody bathes in the sea…
Well, long distance sailors tend to, reserving a little precious fresh water for rinsing feet which are otherwise perpetually damp and cold. ‘Hard’ is what we call water from chalk aquifers (like the Downs that supply much of our water) here, not much lather but plenty of calcium.
Huh, indeed …. Same as Tearing the hair out ? That’s how we feel like doing BECAUSE of stupid Uniparty policies
Something on News / docu this morning, A Travel writer on TalkTV jabbling on about stuff ( Note: she must be flying around THousands of miles each year making her an expert) , HAD to bring in “like climate change” when discussing something else ( was it about covid? ) Just another reason NOT to follow onto HerTube channel shortly.
Another hare-brained climate claim.
Hi Paul, Some Euroloon information for you.. https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/03/08/lake-geneva-is-warming-at-an-alarming-rate-and-its-delicate-ecosystem-is-under-threat
Regards,Rui Ventura
It’s delicate, I tell you!
Rui, the article is incredibly ignorant of temperate lake stratification.
If occurs due to differences in water temperature.
Its water temperature is rising at an alarming rate – 4 to 5 times faster than the world’s oceans.
Alert! New temperature units!
With average annual temperatures reaching a record 13.6 degrees Celsius, it is throwing the lake’s delicate ecosystem into disarray.
The average temperature has FA to do with it. Spring and fall turnovers will occur when the thermocline breaks down. Limnology 101 stuff. Here we have another envirowriter who doesn’t even know the basics.
”… sources of clean water for drinking and bathing become more and more scarce – the loss of their hair.“
Historically sources of clean water have been as scarce as hens’ teeth in what we used to call Third World Countries, so how something that never existed can become more and more scarce must be a mystery only Sherlock Holmes can solve.
Bathing? Traditionally the river or lakes… or not at all.
Journalists these days! I blame the schools.
Clean is relative. Nobody pooping in it up stream is about all they can hope for.
And it is true from Karachi to Macao. And from the Gambie to Mombasa. And from Mazatlan to Machala. And from Montevideo to Matamoros. It is universal with third-world riverine cultures. Singling out Bangladesh is stupid.
That’s silly, but this is even more silly …
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/peter-sweden-sweden-is-charging-electric-busses-diesel/
However, this green shift has caused massive chaos.
So she bathes in water that gives her bleeding blisters? Why?
The water is so polluted its full of bacteria?
They are both going bald and having enough hair to sell?
It’s just contradictory gibberish.
Some of this special water leaks into people’s ears and turns their brains into chop suey. Rumor is that reporters can become infected just by talking to those who claim first-hand experience with such water.
travelled through the region for days, collecting stories
How many stories did they need? Did they stop because they had enough stories? Did they run out of the food they brought with them? Or the bottled water they brought with them? Did they not bath for days?
That is really silly daft stupid! We have ‘hard water’ in England, especially in Kent where I live and also in London when I lived there. Does make for a good cup of tea.
Is the Independent trying to be the new Guardian?