‘You could see and smell the daily flow of trash’: how Bangkok is struggling to protect its slums from flooding

Rung, 63, fought a running battle against the rubbish and raw ­sewage besieging her old home in a wooden slum perched on stilts on the banks of Bangkok’s Lat Phrao canal.
“You could see and smell the daily flow of trash,” recalled the tailor who goes by one name. “It would stop at the back of my house. I wanted a better life for my son and daughter.”
On Christmas Day last year, Rung moved into a brand new, blue-painted house just metres from her old one in the…