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Comments: Failing water supplies destroyed Angkor Wat in Cambodia


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why did they leave was it fixable?

michelle

The failure could be due to the sand dredging. Although there seems to be no direct connection. My explaination is:

When sand is being drdge, water retention becomes more and more difficult. Water flowing down from the mountains flows faster than it is supposed to as the river deepens. This also led to the soil on the higher ground drying up. As time past, the ground is hardening up and structures fail.

This is my personal view and I may be wrong.

Peter Foong

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