New Seawall on Tarawa Island

Kataebati Tebutia lives in a community, Temwaiku-Tenei, on Tarawa Island, where the rising ocean is slowly encroaching on their houses. This is the third time they have rebuilt the seawall that protects their home. The seawall now stands ten metres further inland from the original high tide mark. Kataebati describes how the rising sea levels contaminated his family drinking well with salt water. They had to walk to the local church to get water, but that has recently become salty as well.