Flooding from dam washes out homes, rice fields in southern Cambodia

16 September 2015
Radio Free Asia
Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration / Disasters and emergency response / Electricity infrastructure / Electricity production / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Infrastructure
Kamchay River

Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release excess water from heavy rains, an official said Wednesday. ...

 Chandara Yang
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