{"id":21012,"date":"2020-07-27T09:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/one-million-cambodians-under-threat-from-development-of-vital-wetlands-report"},"modified":"2020-07-27T09:59:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T00:59:53","slug":"one-million-cambodians-under-threat-from-development-of-vital-wetlands-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21012","title":{"rendered":"One million Cambodians under threat from development of vital wetlands  \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New sprawling development near Phnom Penh could prompt environmental catastrophe, including for the capital\u2019s water systems <\/p>\n<p>The destruction of critically-important wetlands by politically-connected developers in Cambodia threatens to flood more than one million Phnom Penh residents, ruin the city\u2019s wastewater system, force hundreds of families from their homes, and trigger environmental devastation, a new report has warned.<\/p>\n<p>The sprawling Tompoun\/Cheung Ek wetlands, just south of Phnom Penh, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2017-01-12\/cambodian-water-people-evicted-from-city-sewer\/8176584\">play a vital role<\/a> in sustaining the Cambodian capital, acting as a natural store of 70% of its rain and wastewater and providing livelihoods for the more than 1,000 families who live, farm and fish in the area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/27\/one-million-cambodians-under-threat-from-development-of-vital-wetlands-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New sprawling development near Phnom Penh could prompt environmental catastrophe, including for the capital\u2019s water systems The destruction of critically-important wetlands by politically-connected developers in Cambodia threatens to flood more than on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,65,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-environment","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21013,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21012\/revisions\/21013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}