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Villagers pin big hopes on little dam [Cambodia]
...[F]amilies in Anlong Chrey village...have watched a small multipurpose dam being built at their back doors…More than four years on, the villagers, the majority of whom are farmers, are now receiving clean, free-flowing water that has helped double their output…Funded by grants and loans through the Korean government’s Economic Development Cooperation Fund and built by Korean company KUMHO E&C, the $27 million Krang Ponley dams replaced outdated and unclean dams built in the Krang Ponley River basin during the Khmer Rouge era…Twelve hundred families in Anlong Chrey village and surrounding areas will also be provided with electricity from the dams…The dams, which are tiny compared to those that grab headlines for their predicted negative impacts, along with supplying electricity, will store a combined 27 million tonnes of water.