Collection of what the media has said about our flooding

This is what I've read over the last few months, please let me know if you know of any others.

When roads become rivers

Friday, 22 August 2008

Shoddy construction means even Phnom Penh’s newest roads flood, with excess water damaging road surfaces and making them impassable (from Phnom Penh Post)

Flooding forces school closures

Written by Khouth Sophakchakrya
Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Missed classes and the risk of disease are the results of nearly two months of deluge that educators in Russey Keo district blame on poorly planned development projects

A disaster resilient city?
28 October 2008

Bunnarith Meng
PhD candidate in urban and regional planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Any solution to urban problems must be more innovative and responsive. Experts, planning professionals and the like have long been warning that filling lakes shrinks the volume of water reservoirs, thereby making the city regions susceptible to flooding.

Russey Keo flooding crisis takes on political edge as SRP insulted
Written by MEAS SOKCHEA
Tuesday, 04 November 2008

A former opposition member turned CPP official says Russey Keo's plight is proof of the SRP's indifference towards suffering of Cambodians

SRP warns that it will lead flooded residents to demonstrate
02 Nov 2008
By Chea Makara
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Muddy Waters
Written by GS Sekhon
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
Phnom Penh
Dear Editor,

I am a foreigner who has been in Phnom Penh for nearly a year and have had the opportunity of seeing some aspects of development in Cambodia. I feel I have no right in passing judgement on the happenings but I feel pain when I see human beings suffering from inadequacies resulting from poor construction, corruption and wanton neglect...

National Geographic right about Phnom Penh
Written by Moeun Chhean Nariddh
Tuesday, 04 November 2008
Phnom Penh
Dear Editor,

In the article "Phnom Penh rated the second-worst city in the world to visit", October 22, we feel like this rating by the National Geographic Society's Center for Sustainable Destinations is very correct as far as current development is concerned.Personally, my family is now badly affected by the double problems caused by the city development, particularly the filling of Boeung Kak...



Blackouts plague floodzone
Written by Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Friday, 07 November 2008

Residents of Phnom Penh's Russey Keo district have been under water since September, and now daily power cuts are proving the last straw for many

And 2 from Nov 19th, page 1 and 2 of PP Post


Russey Keo floods halt lake reclamation
Written by Chrann Chamroeun and Thomas Gam Nielsen
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
THE filling in of Boeung Kak lake has been suspended until flooding in the capital's Russey Keo district is under control, putting a temporary halt to one of Phnom Penh's biggest development projects, city officials said Tuesday.

Water, water everywhere and not an exam in sight

Written by Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Students in Russey Keo may have their December exams cancelled because their schools will still be underwater
"He said that his school has never flooded like this before, but since City Hall started to develop the Russey Keo district, the facility and others have become swamped.

Flooding forces school to cancel holidays for students missing class

Written by Meas Sokchea

Friday, 21 November 2008
Russey Keo district's Fine Arts school has been closed for two months as high water continues to wreak havoc on the stricken neighbourhood

Lake development based on biased impact study: NGOs

Written by Sebastian Strangio and Khouth Sophak Chakrya
Friday, 21 November 2008

Rights groups are uncertain controversial Boeung Kak project will meet the standards of its own environmental report
The reclamation was suspended earlier this week due to flooding in the city's Russey Keo district, but municipal officials denied the filling had anything to do with the floods.