Frances Crowley
Frances Crowley is working in Myanmar as a programme intern for medical aid agency Merlin.
Myanmar cyclone survivors face new threat
Author: Frances Crowley
A family stares at us with a mixture of curiosity and amusement from a house perched on stilts above the river bank. Admittedly we're a bit of an odd spectacle - five people on a boat, plunging a red thermos flask, ornately decorated with pink roses, into the delta. The flask is then hauled out and its murky content carefully transferred into a series of beakers.
Despite the fact the flask would look more at home in one of Myanmar's teashops, our activity is entirely scientific. We're measuring the salinity of the water in the Irrawaddy Delta, the area that bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargis in May.
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Author: Frances Crowley
A family stares at us with a mixture of curiosity and amusement from a house perched on stilts above the river bank. Admittedly we're a bit of an odd spectacle - five people on a boat, plunging a red thermos flask, ornately decorated with pink roses, into the delta. The flask is then hauled out and its murky content carefully transferred into a series of beakers.
Despite the fact the flask would look more at home in one of Myanmar's teashops, our activity is entirely scientific. We're measuring the salinity of the water in the Irrawaddy Delta, the area that bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargis in May.
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