Kong Sothanarith, VOA Khmer | Phnom Penh
“If the water lasts for more than 10 days, rice plants will be destroyed.”
Flooding along the Mekong River in three provinces has claimed six lives and left hundreds of families homeless, authorities said Monday. Five of the victims were children.
Though the flooding has abated somewhat in the provinces of Kratie and Stung Treng, it has continued farther south, in the populous province of Kampong Cham, Mao Hak, director of the meteorology department of the Ministry of Water Resources said.
The flooding left 570 families homeless and has inundated some 5,200 hectares of farmland, he said.
Mekong flooding began last week after heavy rains, and though it has abated in the upstream provinces, the river is expected to swell farther downstream, he said.
Keo Vy, chief of cabinet for the National Disaster Management Committee, said 17 districts in three provinces were flooded.
“If the water lasts for more than 10 days, rice plants will be destroyed,” he said.
2 comments:
flood, drought, flood, drought every year! what's going on in cambodia? i think build thousands of canal and irrigation ditches will solve most of flooding and drought in cambodia, you know! i say use modern machinery to dig more canals and irrigations in cambodia all over the country, ok! wake up, people! look and learn from around the world, ok!
Errr flood is everywhere in the world. Thailand and Laos are having the same problem. Thailand is having worse flood than us right now. Even in U.S has flood and drought. Remember New Orlean where thousand got killed? And then there is drought and famine in Somalia. Nothing we can learn from them really.
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