Civil society seeks to delay new dam on Sesan River

Civil society groups urged the National Assembly Thursday to delay the adoption of a bill on the construction of a $780 million dam on the Sesan River in northeast Cambodia. … Chhit Sam Ath, executive director of NGO Forum, told a news conference that estimates of the number of households affected by the dam varied. One showed 515 households in six villages affected in 2010, rising to 797 households next year. But another estimate in 2009 indicated that 1,025 households in eight villages would be affected, climbing to 1,529 households this year. …

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