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Tonle Sap lake communities face drought, dams and falling fish catches
AP, as carried by Arab News from Chong Kneas, said about 1.5 million people on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap face pressure from El Niño, upstream dams and sand mining.
- Arab News is now reporting this
- New headline Was: “A way of life is disappearing on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap as El Niño pressures lake communities”
- Our desk filed its story
Based on reporting by Arab News
Wire reporting: (AP, via Arab News)
The Associated Press, as carried by Arab News, reported from Chong Kneas that families on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake keep houses afloat on drums while water levels and fish catches change1.
That dispatch said about 1.5 million people live on Tonle Sap, described as Southeast Asia’s largest lake, with homes that rise and fall with seasonal water1.
Arab News’s AP copy said this year’s El Niño is predicted to bring hotter, drier weather across Southeast Asia, and that upstream dams and sand mining are altering Mekong River flow1. It also said more erratic rainfall and droughts tied to climate change are disrupting the seasonal flooding the lake depends on1.
The same account said Cambodia, with about 18 million people, accounts for less than 0.2 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions, and that many lake residents have little land or other assets1. AP’s own page could not be read in full here.
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A way of life is disappearing on Cambodia’s Tonle Sap as El Niño pressures lake communities
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Same copy also at: (AP, via Arab News)