Qualla: Chinit River https://qualla.com/chinit-river en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chinit River https://qualla.com/chinit-river Chinit River: Introduction https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ Soldiers threw grenades into the water to stun fish, and the concrete they cracked was concrete their own regime had forced villagers to build. That is the short, ugly history of the first attempt to control the Chinit River - a diversion structure and a main canal with head regulators, raised in the Kampong Thom countryside under the Khmer Rouge, then knocked about by the men who were meant to be guarding it. The river runs on regardless, gathering 5,649 square kilometres of central Cambodia and delivering it, eventually, to the Tonle Sap.

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chinit River: One River, Two Rivers https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ Measured at the gauge at Kampong Thmar, where the catchment upstream covers 4,130 square kilometres, the Chinit averages 44.1 cubic metres per second. That average is close to meaningless. The recorded maximum is 329 cubic metres per second and the recorded minimum is 3.34 - a hu...

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-one-river-two-rivers.mp3 0:06 2 full Chinit River: The Plan of 1971 https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ In 1971 engineers drew up a multipurpose scheme for the whole valley - irrigation, flood control, fisheries and power - with a command area of 48,000 hectares across the districts of Santuk and Baray. A dam at Phnom Takho, controlling 3,770 square kilometres of catchment, would i...

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-the-plan-of-1971.mp3 0:06 3 full Chinit River: Built by People Who Had No Choice https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ Parts of it went in anyway, between the 1970s and the 1980s. The main diversion structure was completed, and the main canal with its head regulators, and the labour that placed them there was forced. The Khmer Rouge held Cambodia from April 1975 to January 1979 and treated hydrau...

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-built-by-people-who-had-no-choice.mp3 0:06 4 full Chinit River: The Second Attempt https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ The rebuild arrived in 2003 as the Stung Chinit Irrigation and Rural Infrastructure Project, funded to the equivalent of 23.8 million US dollars by the Cambodian government, the Asian Development Bank, the Agence Francaise de Developpement and the beneficiaries themselves. Its op...

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-the-second-attempt.mp3 0:06 5 full Chinit River: Seventy-One Species https://qualla.com/chinit-river/ The Chinit is one of five large tributaries of the Tonle Sap system whose drifting larvae and fry have been netted and counted to work out how Cambodia's fish actually move. Seventy-one species in seventeen families have been recorded in the river. The surveys turned up something...

Read more: Chinit River on Qualla

]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/6/7/j/chinit-river-wp/w67j-chinit-river-seventy-one-species.mp3 0:06 6 full