'Fuel for water': Heatwave piles misery on displaced people in Myanmar

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MYANMAR: Zay Yar Tun fills his truck with water for delivery to refugees in the parched hills of war-ravaged eastern Myanmar, where a heatwave is adding to the misery of life in displacement camps.

Under a roof of plastic sheets in one of the camps in Kayah state, Augusta waits for the 10 gallons that must cover her family's drinking, cooking and washing needs for the next three days.conflict unleashed by the military's 2021 coupNow, a heatwave that has sent the mercury in Myanmar to 48 degrees Celsius in some places has added to uncertainties of life in the camps."But now we can't get water from that place as there is no water left there.

A dozen or so camp residents queue up at the truck for water rations that will have to last them three or four days. "But after the displaced people fled here, the population is too much for the amount of water we can get here."

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