'Floating toilets' help Cambodia's lake-dwelling poor

Floating toilets in Chong Prolay village on Tonle Sap lake in Siem Reap province. - AFP

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AFP): 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.