A drought that started since October 2004 -- the country's worst in 50 years -- has affected around 700,000 people especially in impoverished farming communities. Greenpeace linked rising global temperatures and climate change to the onset of one of the worst droughts to have struck the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia in recent memory.
Kampong Chnang Cambodia

A drought that started since October 2004 -- the country's worst in 50 years -- has affected around 700,000 people especially in impoverished farming communities. Greenpeace linked rising global temperatures and climate change to the onset of one of the worst droughts to have struck the Philippines, Thailand, and Cambodia in recent memory.

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