Outrage over water prices

More than 1,000 villagers in Prey Veng province’s Prey Veng town blocked traffic on national road 11 outside the office of the Cambodian People’s Party yesterday to demand the price of water be lowered from 1,800 riels per cubic metre to 1,200 riels. The protesters, who included government officials, blocked the road from Neak Loeung port to Prey Veng provincial town from 7am. They waved banners and shouted through loudspeakers in protest against a price hike from Touch Kim Water Supply Company, the province’s supplier of fresh water. …

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