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Picture of a house on stilts above flood waters in southern Cambodia
March 13, 2022
Stilt House
A story in the February 1993 issue followed the Mekong River from its origins in western China to the delta in Vietnam. Here, a house on stilts stays safe from floods in southern Cambodia, in which the Mekong rose 25 feet.
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