Margareta Wahlstrom, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk...
Margareta Wahlstrom, special representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, addresses the media during a news conference in Phnom Penh April 25, 2012. Flooding is a recurrent damaging event in Cambodia and may even be worse in the future as experts predict more severe and frequent floods and storms due to climate change impacts, the UN said in a statement. The floods also took an economic toll on the country, impacting more than 1 million acres of rice paddy in Kampong Thom, Battambang and Prey Veng provinces. Wahlstrom's visit to Cambodia, which started on April 20, ended today, the UN said. REUTERS/Samrang Pring (CAMBODIA - Tags: POLITICS DISASTER)