{"id":205996,"date":"2023-01-08T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T08:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=205996"},"modified":"2023-01-08T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T08:31:55","slug":"households-in-cambodias-sihanoukville-city-face-water-shortage-after-dam-burst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=205996","title":{"rendered":"Households In Cambodia&#8217;s Sihanoukville City Face Water Shortage After Dam Burst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHNOM PENH, Jan 8 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Households in Sihanoukville city, in south-west Cambodia&#8217;s Preah Sihanouk province, are facing a shortage of water, after a dam burst, officials said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dam, at the Kbal Chhay waterfall area in Sihanoukville, collapsed last night, causing damage to a pumping station and a pipe, flowing water from the reservoir to one of the city&#8217;s two water treatment plants, Preah Sihanouk provincial governor, Kuoch Chamroeun, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The dam burst halted the operation of one water treatment plant, so it reduced total water supply capacity by 50 percent,&#8221; he said in a footage, posted on the province&#8217;s Facebook page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governor calls on local residents in the coastal city to use water thriftily these days, until the problem is fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preah Sihanouk provincial spokesman, Kheang Phearom, said, the dam burst caused no harm to people, saying that, authorities would try to solve the problem within three days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said, the cause of the collapse is being investigated.&#8211; NNN-AKP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Jan 8 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Households in Sihanoukville city, in south-west Cambodia&#8217;s Preah Sihanouk province, are facing a shortage of water, after a dam burst, officials said today. A dam, at the Kbal Chhay waterfall area in Sihanoukville, collapsed last night, causing damage to a pumping station and a pipe, flowing water from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205996"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205997,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205996\/revisions\/205997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/205998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}