Cambodia’s insatiable appetite for river sand – Mekong Eye

Barges carrying sand (by Ria Tan CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 via Flickr).

The high level of corruption in Cambodia undermined the public’s trust in the government’s regulations on the sand mining industry.

Sor Sok Lang, a resident of Ta Ek commune in Kandal province, 40 kilometers from Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh, has thought about leaving her house on the banks of the Mekong River – where she watches her land get eaten up by the river every year…