Infrastructure
Water and sanitation
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
Water supply subscribers burst into protest
After a group of 100 Sampov Poun and Prek Speu commune residents burst into protest in front of the head office of their water supplier, Chan Nary, in Sampov Poun commune last Thursday, the Koh Thom district authority is attempting to coordinate talks between the ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21546/water-supply-subscribers-burst-into-protest/
Switzerland promises more funding for Kantha Bopha
Swiss ambassador to Cambodia Ivo Sieber pledged his country’s continued support of Kantha Bopha Hospital yesterday, mentioning that almost half of the hospital’s funding comes from the Swiss government. The promise was made during Amb. Seiber’s meeting with Foreign Minister Hor Namhong at the Foreign ...
Ban Sokrith
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21115/switzerland-promises-more-funding-for-kantha-bopha/
NGOs deem sanitation effort in rural Cambodia a success, albeit a partial one
Plan International Cambodia and other partner organizations have ended the Cambodia Rural Sanitation and Hygiene Improvement Program (CRSHIP), saying all of the families involved now understand the importance of sanitation and hygiene. ...
Chea Takihiro
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20589/ngos-deem-sanitation-effort-in-rural-cambodia-a-success--albeit-a-partial-one/
Rural latrine access on the rise, gov’t finds
The Ministry of Rural Development on Friday announced that more than half of Cambodians now have access to improved sanitation such as latrines.According to the ministry’s statement, 47 per cent of Cambodians now lack access to improved sanitation, compared to 89 per cent in 1990.The ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rural-latrine-access-rise-govt-finds
Villagers in Cambodia’s Stung Treng say waterway contaminated by local sawmill
Indigenous villagers in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung Treng province on Monday called for an investigation into a saw mill they say has polluted their local waterway and caused residents to contract a skin disease. ...
Men Sothy
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/contamination-09142015173926.html
Industrial ambitions face thirsty future
Cambodia’s new industrial development policy calls for more factories and special economic zones, but accomplishing this will be difficult. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15199/industrial-ambitions-face-thirsty-future/
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//
Scavengers cut solid waste in country’s lone recycling progam
The day ends late for Cambodian waste pickers. Darkness does not stop them. They walk through the night wearing small miners’ lights announcing their presence by shouting “et chay,” which means “scavenger.” ...
Marina Shafik
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12915/scavengers-cut-solid-waste-in-country---s-lone-recycling-progam/
Huge drop in rate of open defecation, report says
The open defecation rate in Cambodia has dropped by 42 percent since 1990, according to a new U.N. report, but the country’s urban poor still have limited access to improved sanitation. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/huge-drop-in-rate-of-open-defecation-report-says-87094/
Political clout against litter
Cambodia’s Environment Minister Say Samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This Saturday, his father, Say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ...
James Brooke and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12350/political-clout-against-litter/
Garbage workers want boots and gloves
Employees of Cintri, the city’s sole garbage collection agency, are feeling the effects of their job as they go about keeping the capital clean. ...
Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12351/garbage-workers-want-boots-and-gloves/
Poipet safe from water shortage, governor says
Poipet City’s governor said Thursday that residents did not need to worry that their taps could run dry, despite a warning earlier this week by the private company that provides the city’s water that supplies were running low. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/poipet-safe-from-water-shortage-governor-says-85458/
Water utility, residents clash over Poipet road
In the midst of a widespread drought, nearly 50 residents in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town protested against the Anco utilities company over its digging up of a portion of road leading to the Kai Don Reservoir. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-utility-residents-clash-over-poipet-road
Firm says it may turn taps off in Poipet homes
Residents of Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet City have been warned to brace themselves for a major water shortage over the next two weeks as the company contracted to supply the border town’s clean water scrambles to build a new reservoir amid a localized drought. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-says-it-may-turn-taps-off-in-poipet-homes-85285/
Japan provides $25 million to upgrade city water in Kampot
The Japanese government will extend $25 million in aid to rehabilitate the dilapidated water system in Kampot, an old French colonial river port which is attracting more and more tourists. ...
Donald Lee and Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11925/japan-provides--25-million-to-upgrade-city-water-in-kampot/
Eviction fears: Villagers on notice over flood remedy
The filling in of a canal in the capital’s Chbar Ambpov district has prompted local villagers to push back against looming displacement, district officials and community representatives have told the Post. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eviction-fears-villagers-notice-over-flood-remedy
City authority rejects water quality claim
The Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority has released a statement dismissing a media report suggesting that it had been using unhealthy amounts of iron in its water purification processes as an “exaggeration.” ...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-authority-rejects-water-quality-claim-80535/
Fund intended to improve country’s urban sanitation
The government will set up a $5 million fund to allow Cambodia’s 26 provinces and municipalities to take responsibility for waste management in their cities, it was announced recently. With a focus on garbage management, the decentralisation initiative, revealed at a two-day workshop in Phnom Penh ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/fund-intended-improve-countrys-urban-sanitation
Talking trash: PM Hun Sen backs review of contracts
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday personally backed the review of government contracts with private waste removal companies, two weeks after the Council of Ministers signed an order indicating they will review the capital’s contract with garbage collector Cintri. ...
Vong Sokheng and Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/talking-trash-pm-hun-sen-backs-review-contracts
Sanitation check-up
The Ministry of Education will ask government schools to provide information on toilet numbers, fresh water supply and vegetable gardens as part of efforts to tackle poor sanitation and nutrition discouraging students from attending class. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/sanitation-check
Phnom Penh’s trash problem bigger than Cintri: company
Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-trash-problem-bigger-than-cintri-company-78180/
Council of ministers calls for review of contract with Cintri
The government’s faith in Phnom Penh’s embattled trash-collection company appears to have finally been lost after the Council of Ministers announced in a letter on Tuesday that a shake-up was on the way as it considers rescinding Cintri’s exclusive right to manage the city’s garbage ...
Khy Sovuthy
http://www.opendevelopmentcambodia.net/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=news
Trash to double over festival
The heaps of fly-covered refuse known to accumulate around the capital are set to grow a whole lot worse as millions of visitors arrive for the upcoming Water Festival and tax the city’s overburdened trash collector. More than two million additional people are expected to crowd ...
Laignee Barron and Pech Sotheary
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/trash-double-over-festival