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Abby Seiff, author of a new book called “Troubling the Water: A Dying Lake and A Vanishing World in Cambodia,” discusses the future of the Tonle Sap Lake.
It describes how the lake’s extraordinary ecosystem has been of historical importance to Cambodia, but is now threatened by overfishing, dams and climate change.
When Puth Thavy was 20, the fisherman and his siblings used to come back to their village each day with three boatloads full of fish, or about 200 kilograms. Today they can barely fill a single boat.