The ideas for calculating economic lose from flooding in Phnom Penh

If we want to know how much Phnom Penh economic lose, we need to calculate the everything that lose into money, so that it is easy to know how much lose in money.

The calculation should include:

Loss on infrastructure:

• The amount of money on the road damage from flooding (acide from Phnom Penh wastes mixed with rain water also cost highly damage)
• The amount of money on damage of public garden by flooding (The big rain and high level water from flood will highly destroy the existing and new garden in Phnom Penh)
• The amount of money on the damage of water treatment in Phnom Penh

Loss on family economic:

• The amount money from losing or damaging of things/stuffs in house from flooding (including stuffs we used in home, equipments, business products and so on)
• The amount of money to fix the damage of machine of transportation including car and motor by flooding
• The amount of money for healthcare of human being caused by flooding (especially disease from dirty waste mixed with rain water)

Lose on business:

• Business lose during flooding hour (some business cannot operate or no customer during flooding)
• The amount of money from losing working hours and productivity during flooding (traffic jam or road blocked by water and so on)
• and so on

Total all damages and lose in money amount, we will know how much Phnom Penh’s economic lose.

Welcome for comments and others ideas to calculate economic lose of Phnom Penh. Let’s me know if you have good ideas on calculation.

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Who will pay the cost of …?

There are many cost that we already pay daily and yearly, how about below cost? Who will pay those cost? Who should be the person to pay them?
1. Social security
2. Food security
3. Pollution affect human health, agriculture production, water we drink, air we breath and so on
4. Traffic accident and human trafficking
5. Animal life (on land, water and air)
6. Raising temperature day to day
7. Increasing number of natural disasters (flood, storm, dry, and so on) year to year
8. Increasing new diesease year to year
9. Lack of opportunity and fall in poverty
10. and so on

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Sok Lak lives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the country where he dreams and loves to make positive impact and grow green heart. Currently, he is co-founder of Scholar Library and Writing Alliance, an independent student-run association aiming to promote writing awareness and discussion among Cambodian young generation on various topics including climate change and environment, and other social, economic, and political problems. He is also freelancer economic reporter and has over 5 year journalism experience. As media background, he also freelance to work on media contents and media engagement for social projects run by youth group and companies as well. He got a bachelor degree of Economics Development from Royal University of Law and Economics (RULE) in 2010, and bachelor degree of English Literature from University of Cambodia (UC) in 2012. From his practical experiences, and academic background, he has gained skills and qualification in project management, writing and media and communication, public speaking, and good leadership. Sok Lak very passionately loves working with young people and contributing to social change.