Join our discussion between Brian Eyler and NYSEAN member and journalist Abby Seiff about her new book Troubling the Water, which explores how the rapid destruction of a single lake in Cambodia is upending the lives of millions.
The Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia is one of the world’s most productive inland fisheries, and its abundance provides protein and food security to millions. But today, the lake is dying. Dams hold back billions of gallons of water and disrupt critical fish migration paths. Illegal fishing is now unstoppable. And the region has suffered a string of devastating droughts. Drawing on years of reporting, Abby Seiff traces the changes on the Tonle Sap.
