A woman with her children in a small boat pass a flooded house in Cambodia. (Photo: AP)Ratanakkiri, Cambodia
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Patt Paing has five hectares of land by the Sre Pok river. She has a small wooden house, and she raises pigs. The 55-year-old leads a quiet life here in Village Two, in Ratanakkiri’s Koun Mom district. But over the past three years, life has been more difficult.
That’s because of the floods.
“I don’t have enough rice to eat because of the floods for the past three years,” she told VOA Khmer in an interview last week. “In previous years, I could harvest more than 1,000 buckets or over 10 tons of rice per season.”
The floods were caused by water releases from dams upriver, she said.
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