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Craig Saueurs

Flooded homes and rising costs: Why some Thai villages are paying the price to protect Bangkok

Inside their home, raised more than three metres above the ground in the central province of Ayutthaya in Thailand, Kamonchanok Sathaphonamonwut’s family of three sleeps on makeshift platforms and cannot use the waterlogged toilet.

Her village has been flooded six years in a row, pushing some to move away, while others have raised their houses higher.

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