STORY OF THE DAY • Dec 03, 2020  • 12 min read
 
      Natural resources A Kingdom of sand
      By 
      Andrew Haffner 
      
      • Dec 03, 2020
      
      Much of Cambodia's rapid economic growth in recent decades can be attributed to one substance: sand. Homes are built with it, islands created and wetlands filled. But while it's being extracted en masse from the Kingdom's rivers, environmental considerations in the shadowy industry are hard to come by