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VIDEO: Sink or swim for Philippines village in four-year flood

by reuters | Thomson Reuters Foundation
Monday, 18 August 2008 00:00 GMT

Aug. 17 - Residents of a village in the Philippines are struggling to cope with flood waters that have persisted for nearly four years.

Scientists say a combination of climate change, subsiding land and ground water extraction is to blame for the continuous rains and chest-high floods that have blighted the lives of villagers in Artex compound.

Paul Chapman reports.

SOUNDBITES:

Perla Alfornon, Artex compound resident Fernando Siringan, geologist, University of the Philippines

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