Phnom Penh Prepares for the Water Festival.

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CLEAN UP TIME, CAMBODIA STYLE.

Cambodia, you make me laugh. :facepalm:
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Username Taken wrote:CLEAN UP TIME, CAMBODIA STYLE.

Cambodia, you make me laugh. :facepalm:


well.... Isn't Vietnam down stream?

just sayin'


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"well.... Isn't Vietnam down stream?"

Yes and so is much of Cambodia.
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taabarang wrote:"well.... Isn't Vietnam down stream?"

Yes and so is much of Cambodia.


and the ocean and.....

ok, maybe not so funny then.

I need to work on my shtick.

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Username Taken wrote:CLEAN UP TIME, CAMBODIA STYLE.

Cambodia, you make me laugh. :facepalm:
‘The trash just floats away’

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/t ... loats-away

Along a riverbank in the capital yesterday, garbage was strewn in a thick carpet 12 metres across and 10 metres long, spilling down from the embankment’s crest and directly into the water below.
A similar site had provoked outrage just a day before, when a video showing workers sweeping trash from the Water Festival directly into the Tonle Sap river went viral. But for residents of Derm Sleng, a village in the capital’s Chbar Ampov district that remains off the garbage collection radar, such a sight has been the norm for years.


shame really, seems to be just a way of life.


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Bertros wrote:

shame really, seems to be just a way of life.


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From the article the government/authorities obviously need to do more by placing rubbish bins everywhere and having Cintri collecting and disposing of rubbish more regularly/reliably.

You can't really even start a 'Clean City' or "Keep Cambodia Clean' programme without that in place first. A Cambodian friend of mine was bemoaning how dirty his country is, just last week.
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From the article the government/authorities obviously need to do more by placing rubbish bins everywhere and having Cintri collecting and disposing of rubbish more regularly/reliably.

You can't really even start a 'Clean City' or "Keep Cambodia Clean' programme without that in place first. A Cambodian friend of mine was bemoaning how dirty his country is, just last week.[/quote]

one of the rubbish bins along the board walk during the festival. it's supposed to have a bag in it, but nobody used it anyways.


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