Bangladeshi family is ferried on a boat through a flooded residential area in Basaboo in capital Dhaka. A Bangladeshi family is ferried on a boat through a flooded residential area in Basaboo in capital Dhaka July 25, 2004. Millions of people made homeless in South Asia's worst floods in one-and-a half decades were threatened by disease on Saturday as rising waters cut off access to food and drinking water. REUTERS/Rafiqur Rahman