{"id":959,"date":"2020-03-15T13:34:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/?p=959"},"modified":"2020-03-16T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:39:00","slug":"water-shortages-raise-alarm-in-phnom-penh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/water-shortages-raise-alarm-in-phnom-penh\/","title":{"rendered":"Water shortages raise alarm in Phnom Penh"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"959\" class=\"elementor elementor-959\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8799065 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8799065\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-07f9484\" data-id=\"07f9484\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5bfba7b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5bfba7b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<em>Source: The Phnom Penh Post<\/em> <br\/>\n<em>Date: 15 March 2020<\/em>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6cc82a6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6cc82a6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3e12841\" data-id=\"3e12841\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d22ea1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d22ea1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As temperatures rise across the Kingdom, several communes in Phnom Penh are reporting water shortages.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tan Ratanak, a 22-year-old woman from Phnom Penh\u2019s Russey Keo district, told The Post there was no water in her commune last week.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAll last week, from 7am to 8:30pm, not a single drop came out of the faucet. It happened to all the neighbours. Some evenings, the water didn\u2019t return until 10pm,\u201d she said.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ratanak claimed the problem with the water supply was caused by renovations of canals and streets in the capital.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority (PPWSA) director-general Sim Sitha said the shortage was not due to technical issues but to an unexpected increase in consumption.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe can supply 600,000 cubic metres per day while demand has now exceeded 700,000 cubic metres. We are about 100,000 cubic meters short,\u201d he said.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sitha said water supply in the capital is increasing every year but not as fast as the demand. According to him, in 2016, PPWSA produced only 400,000 cubic metres of clean water daily.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government is now building a new water treatment plant in Phnom Penh\u2019s Chroy Changvar district. The project which is still in the early stages is being built at a cost of $300 million and can produce 400,000 cubic metres per day.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once construction of the plant completes in 2023, Sitha says he hopes water shortages will end.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Friday, Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng urged district authorities to prioritise solving the water shortage issue.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs Phnom Penh grows, and more houses and high-rise buildings are built, demand for water will continue to expand,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Phnom Penh Post Date: 15 March 2020 As temperatures rise across the Kingdom, several communes in Phnom Penh are reporting water shortages. Tan Ratanak, a 22-year-old woman from Phnom Penh\u2019s Russey Keo district, told The Post there was no water in her commune last week. \u201cAll last week, from 7am to 8:30pm, not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iseacambodia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}