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Phumi Moat Khla, Tonle Sap, Cambodia. Men work in small family maintained fish farms as a way to provide for their families. Hydropower dams being built on the Mekong river are going to be extremely damaging to the communities that rely on fish as food and a way of supporting their families. The Cambodian Fisheries Administration reports that due to mainstream dam development on the mekong , the country may lose up to 42 percent of its freshwater fish by 2030. The Tonle Sap Lake is situated in the heart of Cambodia and is South East Asia’s largest fresh water lake. The 1.5 million people that live their lives on the lake are an ethnically diverse population of Khmers, Cham, and Vietnamese who experience a life isolated from both the modern world and the progress that is happening in much of Cambodia. -- Go to http://www.nurphoto.com to see more

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