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Lao Dams, Mining Ruining Sekong Water Quality in Cambodia
- 26 June 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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Dam-building and gold mining in southern Laos are ruining water quality downstream on the Sekong River in Cambodia, where villagers are no longer able to drink or use the water, according to an environmental group. The activities undertaken by Lao and Vietnamese companies on the Sekong’s ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/sekong-06252013190742.html
Short on Water in the Tonle Sap
- 20 March 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Fishing, fisheries and aquaculture / Protected areas / Rivers and lakes / Water resources
- clean water / Fish / fisheries / Forestry and Fisheries / human health / Peam Ta Our / Puok district / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / silt / Tonle Sap / Tonle Sap lake / Tonle Sap river
Residents of a village in the middle of Cambodia’s Tonle Sap “Great Lake” live surrounded by water, but don’t have enough access to clean water for drinking, cooking, and washing. The Tonle Sap, a combined lake and river system that swells in the rainy season to ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/water-03202013141227.html
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