comfortable lives and i'm poor and can't do anything about it but because the sand is missing here our house slid into the me call. the villagers are desperate but also disheartened that. the sand doesn't belong to anyone it belongs to the river but these people come here investors business people they come and just take the sand in order to sell it. later cambodia has now officially prohibited the export of sand but how strictly is the ban enforced when asked government officials refused to comment just outside the capital phnom penh mountains of sand her piled up for the city's own construction sites this man works for a conservation group. 2016 we checked the shipping documentation and found that come bode you claim to be sending only small amounts of sand to singapore but