Means of living: Boats sailing on the body of water going through the Prek Toal floating village at the Tonle Sap lake. More than a million people live on or around the giant lake which is the world’s largest inland fishery. — AFP
As night falls over his floating village, fisherman Leng Vann puffs on a cigarette and heaves a sigh for Tonle Sap, the great inland lake that has sustained Cambodia for centuries.
More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world’s largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stock dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.
