Pich Samnang, VOA Khmer
Kampong Thom, Cambodia Thursday, 05 August 2010
The machines had come to tear down more than 10 reservoirs local farmers had built to capture the receding waters of the swollen Tonle Sap lake.
“I was very disappointed with the destruction of my reservoir.”One morning in early July, about a dozen bulldozers and excavators came to Msa Krong commune where Kong Heuv lives, about 50 kilometers outside Kampong Thom provincial town.
The machines had come to tear down more than 10 reservoirs local farmers had built to capture the receding waters of the swollen Tonel Sap lake.
“I was very disappointed with the destruction of my reservoir,” said the 67-year-old farmer, as he walked along the flattened dam one recent day.
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