Myanmar: As Lines Form for Water, Myanmar Pins Hopes on Suu Kyi

May 25, 2016 | Esther Htusan, Associated Press
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Every year at this time, the ponds and wells go dry. People walk for hours to fill their plastic buckets at a lotus-filled pond that is the only clean source of drinking water in this community outside Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon. The dry season, which typically runs from April through May, has been compounded this year by an El Nino-induced drought that added several months to the water shortage affecting Dala township. But this year's dry season has also ushered in a new sense of hope.