{
  "subject": "i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh",
  "claims": [
    {
      "id": "title",
      "proposition": {
        "predicate": "title",
        "object": "‘I fear people will go to war over water’: as wells run dry, farmers struggle to survive in Bangladesh"
      },
      "time": {
        "asserted": "2026-06-13T04:23:35.405Z"
      },
      "force": "alleges",
      "provenance": {
        "witness": "wire-ingest",
        "citation": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/09/i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh"
      },
      "status": "supported"
    },
    {
      "id": "url",
      "proposition": {
        "predicate": "url",
        "object": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/09/i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh"
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      "time": {
        "asserted": "2026-06-13T04:23:35.405Z"
      },
      "force": "alleges",
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        "citation": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/09/i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh"
      },
      "status": "supported"
    },
    {
      "id": "summary",
      "proposition": {
        "predicate": "summary",
        "object": "<p>The arid Barind region was transformed by aquifer wells but now the water system is collapsing under the pressure of the climate crisis and decades of extraction</p><p>In the parched fields of north-west Bangladesh, where the earth hardens into cracked red clay beneath an unforgiving sun, farmers in the Barind region say they are watching the foundations of rural life disappear underground.</p><p>For decades, groundwater <a href=\"https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/888071579802640956\">transformed Barind</a> – one of Bangladesh’s driest regions – into a productive agricultural belt. <a href=\"https://www.ctc-n.org/technologies/boreholes-and-tubewells\">Deep tube wells</a> allowed farmers to grow rice, wheat, maize and vegetables year-round across land once defined by drought.</p> <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/09/i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh\">Continue reading...</a>"
      },
      "time": {
        "asserted": "2026-06-13T04:23:35.405Z"
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      "force": "alleges",
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        "citation": "https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jun/09/i-fear-people-will-go-to-war-over-water-as-wells-run-dry-farmers-struggle-to-survive-in-bangladesh"
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    },
    {
      "id": "published",
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        "predicate": "published",
        "object": "Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:00:51 GMT"
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        "asserted": "2026-06-13T04:23:35.405Z"
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