Over 1,000 tonnes of rubbish removed from capital’s canal as Cambodia reports its 21st Covid-19 death

A woman pushes her food cart past the Boeung Trabek sewage canal in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district early this month. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN

PHNOM PENH, April 5 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Around 1,500 tonnes of rubbish, mostly plastic, has been removed from the capital’s Boeung Trabek canal – an amount officials said was huge but less than before.

Duong Chansarath, head of the drainage and sewage unit at the Phnom Penh municipal Department of Public Works and Transport, said his team had disposed of waste that was blocking the sewage canal from March 10-31 in a bid to reduce flooding in the coming rainy season.