Cities around the world are sinking at 'worrying speed' [View all]

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Twenty-two years ago, when Erna stood outside her house, “the windows were as high as my chest”. Now they’re knee-height.

As their home has sunk, she and her family have had to cope with frequent flooding. In the most extreme cases “we used canoes - the water kept coming in and swamped the ground floor”, she says.

Erna lives in the Indonesian capital Jakarta - one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. Her home is in one of the worst-affected areas, the north of the city, and is now much lower than the road.