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Based on 5 verified sources covering Myanmar, Thailand:

Although Pattaya is entering this year’s rainy season with 6 pumping stations at the ready, officials are asking village chiefs what other areas need help in mitigating floods. [1]

The cleanup of Saha Farm’s Baan Sukhawadee mansion is proceeding well, but a long-term fix for recent wastewater discharges still has yet to be implemented, Pattaya officials say. [2]

Preparing for the rainy season, city workers clear away water plants that grow in Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal. The plant life can block rainwater and cause flooding further inland. [3]

For the second time in two months, Pattaya engineers returned to Naklua’s No Yang canal to clear it of vegetation and debris to improve flood control. [4]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Every month, Fathima Rifka used to suffer the embarrassment of rinsing out the rags she used during her period at a public tap — the only source of running water available in the poor Sri Lankan neighborhood she grew up in. [5]

Sources
[1] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2013-05-22 · 100% match

Pattaya readies water pumps for rainy season

Although Pattaya is entering this year’s rainy season with 6 pumping stations at the ready, officials are asking village chiefs what other areas need help in mitigating floods.

[2] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2016-04-11 · 100% match

Cleanup of Ban Sukhawadee underway

The cleanup of Saha Farm’s Baan Sukhawadee mansion is proceeding well, but a long-term fix for recent wastewater discharges still has yet to be implemented, Pattaya officials say.

[3] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2015-06-17 · 79% match

Pattaya digs out Nok Yang canal, again

Preparing for the rainy season, city workers clear away water plants that grow in Naklua’s Nok Yang Canal. The plant life can block rainwater and cause flooding further inland.

[4] TH www.pattayamail.com · 2014-09-24 · 64% match

Cleanup resumes at Naklua’s Nok Yang canal

For the second time in two months, Pattaya engineers returned to Naklua’s No Yang canal to clear it of vegetation and debris to improve flood control.

[5] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2019-04-04 · 39% match

Pad Women — The All-Female Business Easing Period Poverty in Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Every month, Fathima Rifka used to suffer the embarrassment of rinsing out the rags she used during her period at a public tap — the only source of running water available in the poor Sri Lankan neighborhood she grew up in.

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