Mobile phones to be used for flood alert
Thursday, September 24th, 2009The Mekong River Commission (MRC) have used mobile phones as a new tool to monitor Mekong flooding, providing 14 phones to 14 villages flanking the Mekong river in order to send flood forecast and reports to the government via SMS text messages. The villages that received the phones are in Kandal province’s Loeuk Deck district [...]