Myanmar cyclone survivors face water shortage

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

SHAW CHAUNG, Myanmar (Reuters) - For most of the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the annual monsoon rains that have lashed Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta for the last six months only compounded the misery.

The makeshift tarpaulin shelters have leaked constantly, rice stocks damaged by the May 2 storm have not dried out, and the roads have become rivers of mud, further preventing distribution of aid to the 2.4 million people affected.

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Many village wells and ponds throughout the densely populated rice-growing region remain contaminated by sea water and the rain, collected in jars, plastic sheets or tarpaulins slung outside huts, were the only source of fresh drinking water.

Now, with the rainy season coming to an end this month, aid agencies are warning of a renewed threat of diseases such as typhoid and diarrhea from dirty drinking water.



Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4A20Y820081103

[IntravenousDemilo]

1. Hmmm, they mean Burma, don't they?

Myanmar is what the junta calls it, and what it wants us to call it, too, which is the perfect reason not to call it that.

[Coventina]

2. Well, per DU rules, I have to quote the exact headline

as provided by the news source.