Families no longer displaced by dam

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Indigenous families in Kbal Romeas village who were displaced last year by flooding from the reservoir of the Lower Sesan II Dam in Stung Treng province have been given new homes and hope for a better life in a new village along National Road 78. The new village is one of three new resettlement villages funded by Lower Sesan Co. Ltd., which is undertaking the $816 million dam project in a joint venture with Cambodia’s Royal Group and Hydrolancang International Energy Co. Ltd.

 

The new village location, determined by villagers’ collective voting, is complete with facilities such as a school, clinic and pagoda, and also has infrastructure such as roads and electricity. According to the chief of the new village, Kru You, the company built wooden houses and brick-wood houses for villagers.

 

“Each family was given five hectares for cultivation of cashew nut trees in addition to building water ponds around our land to facilitate irrigation,” he said. He said in their old village on a bend of the Srepok River, life was hard because of poor living conditions in the rainy season due to floods.

 

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