Pointing to the murky waters of the Tonle Sap, Si Vorn fights back tears as she recalls her four-year-old daughter dying from diarrhoea after playing in the polluted lake.
Her family of 12 is among 100,000 people living in floating houses on Cambodia's vast inland waterway, and while their village has 70 houses and a primary school, it has no sanitation system.
"Every day, I worry about my health. Look at the water, there is no sanitation. I'm so worried but I don't know what to do."More than a million people live on or around Tonle Sap, the world's largest inland fishery, but there is no system in place for managing human waste from the 20,000 floating houses around the lake.
"We're addressing sanitation in floating villages that have never experienced sanitation before," Taber Hand, the founder of Wetlands Work, told AFP.The resulting"grey water" may not be clean enough to drink, but it is safe to use for washing and cooking. The hope is that the more villagers see the toilets in action, the more they will want proper sanitation.
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