Water, the saying goes, will find its way. And so it seems to be the case in West Africa. Rising sea levels and erosion along the coast are threatening the homes and jobs of hundreds of thousands of people across West Africa. Grand-Lahou is one example. The Ivory Coast tourist town is about 100 kilometers west of Abidjan. The waves are swallowing the coastline of Grand-Lahou’s old town at a rate of one to two meters a year. It is a problem along much of West Africa’s coast. The effects could be serious. One-third of the area’s people live by the sea. The coastal areas contribute about half of the area’s GDP, or gross domestic product. Eugene Koffi has spent all his life on a shrinking patch of land between the sea and lagoon. It is called Lahou-Kpanda. Pointing out across the water, Koffi says the sea used to be back there, two kilometers away.
Title: Ocean Swallowing West African Coastline
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1198/ocean_audio.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Ocean Swallowing West African Coastline' data-article-id='1696'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='4813'>Water, the saying goes, will find its way.</span> <span data-start-time='4813' data-end-time='9875'>And so it seems to be the case in West Africa.</span> <span data-start-time='9875' data-end-time='22542'>Rising sea levels and erosion along the coast are threatening the homes and jobs of hundreds of thousands of people across West Africa.</span> <span data-start-time='22542' data-end-time='25896'>Grand-Lahou is one example.</span> <span data-start-time='25896' data-end-time='33750'>The Ivory Coast tourist town is about 100 kilometers west of Abidjan.</span> <span data-start-time='33750' data-end-time='44417'>The waves are swallowing the coastline of Grand-Lahou’s old town at a rate of one to two meters a year.</span> <span data-start-time='44417' data-end-time='49229'>It is a problem along much of West Africa’s coast.</span> <span data-start-time='49229' data-end-time='52646'>The effects could be serious.</span> <span data-start-time='52646' data-end-time='57396'>One-third of the area’s people live by the sea.</span> <span data-start-time='57396' data-end-time='66438'>The coastal areas contribute about half of the area’s GDP, or gross domestic product.</span> <span data-start-time='66438' data-end-time='76646'>Eugene Koffi has spent all his life on a shrinking patch of land between the sea and lagoon.</span> <span data-start-time='76646' data-end-time='79917'>It is called Lahou-Kpanda.</span> <span data-start-time='79917' data-end-time='88917'>Pointing out across the water, Koffi says the sea used to be back there, two kilometers away.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1198/ocean_img.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=6664 data-hint-location='66438' 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