{"id":78,"date":"2019-04-28T22:59:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T22:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/?p=78"},"modified":"2019-04-28T23:01:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:01:37","slug":"sand-mining-on-the-mekong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/sand-mining-on-the-mekong\/","title":{"rendered":"Sand Mining on the Mekong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw this short video from The Atlantic on sand mining in Cambodia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NSRY_aYmfFo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was sand mining when I first arrived in Prey Veng province in 2006 but I remember things dramatically increasing in scale from land based pumping or the occasional barge to fleets of barges equipped with cranes. The photos below were taken by me in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"82\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/?attachment_id=82\" class=\"wp-image-82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Makeshift sand mining by barge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3938-e1556491334249-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"81\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/?attachment_id=81\" class=\"wp-image-81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3938-e1556491334249-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3938-e1556491334249-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3938-e1556491334249-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3938-e1556491334249-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Sand mining from land<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN2023-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"85\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4Cambodia\/?attachment_id=85\" class=\"wp-image-85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN2023-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN2023-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN2023-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN2023-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Fleet of sand barges!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While I was in Cambodia there was a temporary moratorium on sand mining after a village on a riverbank collapsed into the Mekong but it didn&#8217;t seem like that lasted very long. Then, in 2017, Cambodia passed a law permanently banning the export of sand for construction&#8230;but, as with similar laws in Indonesia and Malaysia, enforcement is sporadic. With the worldwide shortage of water sand (as opposed to wind sand) becoming more pronounced it&#8217;s likely that excessive mining will continue until the consequences are too severe to be overlooked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this short video from The Atlantic on sand mining in Cambodia. There was sand mining when I first arrived in Prey Veng province in 2006 but I remember things dramatically increasing in scale from land based pumping or the occasional barge to fleets of barges equipped with cranes. The photos below were taken&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/sand-mining-on-the-mekong\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cambodia-in-the-news","tag-mekong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/DSCN3947-1-e1556491373968.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-1g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}