Angkor archaeological park is at risk of collapse due to excessive use of underground water.
05 Dec 2010
Al Jazeera
Angkor archaeological park is one of Cambodia's most beloved destinations, the solid stone ruins of Angkor sit atop a huge reservoir of underground water.
For centuries this water has kept the sandy soil firm and the monuments steady, but as tourists flood to these temples, the water has been used to supply the rapidly expanding tourist city of Siem Reap.
The crowds are literally sucking the ground out from under Angkor Wat and its temples, with potentially dire consequences.
The stone is already cracking under the strain of water being drained from the earth.
Experts are seeing the towers move before their eyes.
If the Government still use underground water, in the future, the momument can be subsided and collapse.
Al Jazeera's Aella Callan reports from Cambodia.
7 comments:
The Vietnam has told Hun Sen if the Angkor Wat collapse because of the under ground shortage water ,they can replace with the Viet bamboo instead so there will no longer worry about anything.
Cheer!
Hun Sen is going to cry his heart out again as the rush to see Angkor, before it collapses, will create a stampede that is crushed and buried under the stones.
And best of all, it will be no one's fault.
Kuoy Pichet
Why Khmer people? For money, you go along with immediate foreign investment and development. What do you think happen when Angkor collapse? Hun Sen will say to people like me, "yos, Ah Pleur! don't you think those businessmen think about it? people are not stupid, they think too! If Angkor collapse where will they get money from?"
My answer to you and your supporter Hun Sen is this: When angkor collapse, the businessmen can take their business elsewhere, but Khmer people can never recover our heritage, ever again!
Think about this my fellow Khmer and CPP supporters. Wake up to own your country's future and take responsibility!
THIS FUCKEN GUY CANNOT RUN THE FUCKEN COUNTRY! FUCKEN IDIOT!
many people still use groundwater for their everyday washing, cooking, etc. i think it is time for cambodia to start pumping water supply for usage from the many lakes and rivers all across the country, especially in the cities throughout cambodia. they ought to look into modernizing cambodia's water sanitation system in urban and suburban areas. it's time to stop depend on using groundwater from the well in the cities. if so lack of the technological know-how, they should study from the USA, the EU, australia, japan, etc on how to make sanitation water system, etc... wake up people, cambodia is still behind time in the field of modern technology.
As with the stampede at Koh Pich bridge, the failure to stabilize and reverse underground water reservoir level is indeed, and has been, the government's fault, and no one else's.
The real tragedy is that some people are still blind enough not to see that any national government's prime duty and obligation towards the nation and the electorate is to rectify such situations before they become un-rectifiable.
Just look at those accursed concrete border stones in Memot, and ask: who is responsible for them being there? If you still think it is nobody's fault, then perhaps you too are beyond redemption and are a part of the problem instead of the solution.
Kouprey
There will be no body fault! Ankor never collapsed before!
It may be Goverment fault by not beleiving KI oand Ankor fault for not collapsed before, or Voraman 2 for building Ankor in Seam Reap!
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