Aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in early May 2008, some volunteers organized by Buddhist monasteries reached out to the cyclone victims almost unreachable villages (at that time) located along the coast of Burma’s delta regions. Messages came to me that villages lost their drinking water ponds. The storm surges washed away and flooded the village ponds with salt water. In some places, water in the ponds was contaminated with debris as well as the dead bodies of animals and human. Drinking water ponds are vital for every rural Burma because of the shortage of water during the dry months of monsoon season. In the Arakan (Rakhine) and Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) coastal regions and the delta regions of Lower Burma such as Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) and Rangoon (Yangon) divisions, rain is abundant in the rainy season for four months, and then the dry season sets in as temperature raising higher and higher every day during the summer months, leaving local h...
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