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