Cambodia in Flood

Street 105, Phnom Penh 3/10/2013
Recent flooding caused the sewerage canal (submerged right)
 to discharge raw sewerage onto the street

Flooding in Cambodia this wet season has, so far:

~Claimed the lives of 152 people.

~ Forced more than 27,000 families to seek higher ground.

~ Partly submerged more than 200,000 homes, and

~ Nearly 1,500 schools, and

~ Approximately 500 pagodas.

~Destroyed 300,000 hectares of paddy fields