Areas Near Lake Development Now Flooded

Flooding in Russey Keo in 2008 (Photo: Heng Chivoan, The Phnom Penh Post)

By Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
30 October 2009

Sitting on a wooden bed above knee-high water, Bo Socheata gazed at the stagnant floodwater invading her home.

“Since before Pchum Ben, the water has made it difficult for my children to go to school,” said the 30-year-old housewife and mother of three, who lives in the capital’s Tuol Sangke commune, Russey Keo district. “And the smell from the flood is terrible.”

Eight communes in two districts north of Phnom Penh have been inundated with floodwater for the past month, with some residents forced to abandon the ground floors of their homes and schools temporarily closed.

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