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Hell and high water
As Thailand’s heaviest floods in decades headed south, a strategy evolved to dam Bangkok and protect it at all costs, even if it meant more damage to outlying regions. But the water keeps coming. Now the city must swallow its share.
Pictures by Joe Torres.
- ucanews.com Friday 16 November 2012
Bangkok used to be called ‘the Venice of the East,” because of the many canals that ran through it. But the frantic building boom of the last 50 years has buried up to 90 percent of those canals under roads and buildings.
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