Rural water and sanitation infrastructure
Rural water supply
Kampong Chhnang disputants’ water woes ‘ignored’
Some 34 families in Kampong Chhnang’s Lorpeang village yesterday filed a new petition at the provincial hall urging authorities to intervene in a nine-year land dispute with KDC International, which villagers say has reached a bottleneck and is affecting their daily lives. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampong-chhnang-disputants-water-woes-ignored
Military readies 100 trucks for water crisis response
A hundred military trucks have been readied to transport water to drought-hit provinces, where hundreds of livestock deaths have been reported this month amid scorching heat. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/military-readies-100-trucks-for-water-crisis-response-111871/
Low reservoir levels in Siem Reap affecting thousands
More than 1,000 families in Siem Reap province are facing clean water shortages as the water level at Baray Teuk Thla reservoir has fallen for the first time in several years due to the especially harsh drought conditions confronting the Kingdom in recent months. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/low-reservoir-levels-siem-reap-affecting-thousands
Water running out in Reay Pai
About 2,700 families in Kampong Cham province’s Reay Pai commune, where wells and ponds have almost dried up, could soon be left without any safe water. ...
Sen David and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-running-out-reay-pai
Citizens urged to ration water
Cambodia’s drought has hit even the coldest provinces, as Ban Lung’s main water supplier, Tai Seng Phalit Teuksaat Co., broadcast drought warnings to the residents of Ratanakkiri early this week, advising residents to start rationing water. ...
Aisha Down
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21847/citizens-urged-to-ration-water/
Access to clean water in rural areas hits 50%
Cambodia passed a key Millennium Development Goal milestone last year with half of rural areas now having access to clean drinking water, according to a Ministry of Rural Development annual report released yesterday. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/access-clean-water-rural-areas-hits-50
Arsenic in well water poisoning the most vulnerable
Villagers in Preak Russey have learned that red means arsenic. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15002//
