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Heavy metal tragedy still playing out at Klity Creek

Spectrum, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 27/01/2013

» Ma Aung Seng's bamboo thatched-roof home has no running water, and the 50-year-old blind Karen woman has no money to buy bottled water as she can no longer work her rice fields. So when she needs water she normally asks her 16-year-old son to walk down to Klity Creek and fetch some to use for drinking, cooking and cleaning.