Battambang
28 April 2008
Residents have complained to their commune council to have sanitation problems at Domnak Sdav Market in Battambang province’s Rattanak Mondul district cleared up.
Local authorities have failed to do anything about the mud and garbage, which piles high in the rainy season, in a market that sells produce, including for export, vendors say.
The stench is terrible, they say, while health workers are concerned the market could make people ill.
Hun Sadeng, a spice vendor at Domak Sdav, wears a mask to help keep the stink at bay.
“In Sdav Market, there’s no sanitation,” she said. “The smell of garbage affects my house, near here, and there is no place to dump garbage, and there has not been a drainage system since I came to live here five years ago.”
“I want to have clean sanitation, to avoid, when it rains, puddles of waters that have mosquitoes,” she said.
Garbage is never collected on time, vendors say, and they worry about their health.
Representatives from the local Cambodian Youth Council, a civic group, have sent a petition with 600 thumbprints to the commune council to have the market fixed.
Commune Chief Puch Peng denied such conditions at the market and said he had not received the Youth Council petition.
The director of the market could not be reached for comment, but Puch Peng said market management was not to blame.
“They collect garbage everyday, and never leave it for four or five days,” he said. “There is nothing left over to make it smell. But the main problem is that there is no drainage system, because it is caused by people having a pig farm.”
Local authorities have failed to do anything about the mud and garbage, which piles high in the rainy season, in a market that sells produce, including for export, vendors say.
The stench is terrible, they say, while health workers are concerned the market could make people ill.
Hun Sadeng, a spice vendor at Domak Sdav, wears a mask to help keep the stink at bay.
“In Sdav Market, there’s no sanitation,” she said. “The smell of garbage affects my house, near here, and there is no place to dump garbage, and there has not been a drainage system since I came to live here five years ago.”
“I want to have clean sanitation, to avoid, when it rains, puddles of waters that have mosquitoes,” she said.
Garbage is never collected on time, vendors say, and they worry about their health.
Representatives from the local Cambodian Youth Council, a civic group, have sent a petition with 600 thumbprints to the commune council to have the market fixed.
Commune Chief Puch Peng denied such conditions at the market and said he had not received the Youth Council petition.
The director of the market could not be reached for comment, but Puch Peng said market management was not to blame.
“They collect garbage everyday, and never leave it for four or five days,” he said. “There is nothing left over to make it smell. But the main problem is that there is no drainage system, because it is caused by people having a pig farm.”
5 comments:
thanks for bringing this up. i think cambodia ought to modernize its outdoor, local market called psah in khmer. i mean all psah in cambodia should have paved concrete ground or should be modernized to have good lightings, restrooms, clean and have running water, etc. yes, when it rain, the local market are so filthy. i think that ought to change now. people should not be throwing trashes all over the place without consideration for cleanliness and orderly along a modern nation.
If market management is not blame, who is? Can should have people working on the clock cleaning up, not just one time a week. I'm not sure how much they charge the sellers, but I think they have enough money to hire folks to clean up.
The local think it's pretty dirty, imagine what the foreigners think?
Cambodians tolerate shit, guess what they end up with ...? The mindset is the rooted cause of all problems.
it's time to change that old-fashion, outdated mindset, cambodia. please look around the world for changes. travel more so you can see what other countries are like so when you come back to cambodia can help cambodia to be better in most ways. thank you and god bless all khmer people.
remember it is ok to borrow or adopt ideas or concepts from others; this is how the entire world existed for thousands of years already. please learn new ideas and new innovations, cambodia. thank you.
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