This simple project will restore and improve upon the region's irrigation system, leading to increased cropping intensity and higher total production, creating more demand for labour, and contributing to a reduction in poverty. Since the dam’s failure six years ago, thousands of residents in the area have been relying on one growing season instead of two, and the economic effects have devastated the already impoverished region. Working closely with a Cambodian engineer and a non-governmental organization, the team is constructing a privately funded concrete dam to replace an earthen structure that washed away during the rainy season of 2000.Īs with much of Cambodia, this region depends heavily on the dam and adjacent reservoir for irrigation during the dry season. The New York City Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders has taken on a fast-paced project in Cambodia at the Balang Commune near Siem Reap, to be completed in January 2008. IABSE Symposium: Improving Infrastructure Worldwide, Weimar, Germany, 19-21 September 2007
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