Orkide Director Gets 67 Hectares on Boeng Tamok

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Orkide Director Gets 67 Hectares on Boeng Tamok

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A business associate of the prime minister’s daughter has received 67 hectares from the state on the rapidly filling Boeng Tamok lake in Phnom Penh.

Boeng Tamok, one of the city’s last lakes, has been doled out to tycoons and officials’ family members in recent years, and is now being filled with sand for development.

https://vodenglish.news/orkide-director ... eng-tamok/

"Meanwhile, lakeside residents are facing eviction and have protested the exchanges offered to them."
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Lake =>

Helps flood control
Lower temperature
Looks good
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orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:51 am Lake =>

Helps flood control
Lower temperature
Looks good
Don’t be daft, lakes are only good for filling with sand and topped with a garish borey development. Preferably filled with concrete so somewhere else down the road can flood
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There is no worry about flooding until it floods. Then it’s a natural event caused by rains.

Requiring a wealthy NGO to solve.

Plus it’s believed that locals like concrete everything.

Seeing their entire neighborhood from inside their house is a good thing.

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orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:51 am Lake =>

Helps flood control
Lower temperature
Looks good
Lakes also contain a diverse habitat for all kinds of life, insects, fish and other marine biomass. To concrete over lakes is a crime against nature.
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newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 3:49 pm

Seeing their entire neighborhood from inside their house is a good thing.
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Tommie wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:07 pm
orussey98 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 10:51 am Lake =>

Helps flood control
Lower temperature
Looks good
Lakes also contain a diverse habitat for all kinds of life, insects, fish and other marine biomass. To concrete over lakes is a crime against nature.
That's true and I don't think anyone would argue the point. However most of the central part of the country is an alluvial flood plain. Phnom Penh only exists because of the location at the four faces. It was never an ideal place to develop because the "land" mostly consisted of lakes and swamps. The land you are possibly standing on in the capital was a swamp not so long ago. Sure, they could keep a few lakes but that's not much use for development.
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