Factory Agrees To Stop Poisoning Neighbors

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Khmer Times / Mom Kunthear

About 60 families in Battambang town gathered yesterday to demand that the owner of an ice-making factory stop releasing polluted water into the creek that runs through their neighborhood in Romchek village 5 as well as on their land. They said that its owner, Leng Bun An, finally agreed to stop releasing the polluted water from his factory after 10 years of complaints from people who live near it.

Oun Leung, 28, said she and her family had put up with the pollution for a decade. At first, the ammonia level in the water was not too high, but as it increased, her mother, children, livestock and pets started getting sick almost daily, she said.

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