BAN NONG MA (Thailand): Every morning, 59-year-old Kiew Intra rises early to drive her cart several kilometres to the local disaster relief centre in north-east Thailand to queue up for a dozen four-litre jugs of clean water.
The land around the centre is as parched as her own neighbourhood, where the ponds and canals dried up months ago but it is where government water trucks come for emergency distribution as Thailand's seasonal drought hits home again.
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