Battambang: The Ministry of Environment team continued to inspect with experts from the Battambang Provincial Department of Environment and Ratanak Mondul District Administration on April 21-22, 2026 and found that the Bai Sing Seng mango pulp factory, located next to the O Treng River and at a point upstream of the dead fish, approximately 2 kilometers away, had released liquid waste without proper treatment through the sewage system that drains from the production site directly into the O Treng River (located at the eastern part of the northern part of the factory site).
The Ministry of Environment requires:
1- Suspend factory production until the wastewater treatment plant is built and the process complies with technical standards.
2- The factory must close all drainage (liquid waste, rainwater) to prevent water from flowing from the dredging site into the O Treng River.
3- The company will be fined for non-compliance and must pay compensation for environmental damage based on the actual assessment of experts.
4- The Ministry of Environment will permanently close the factory in case of non-compliance with the above principles or repeated violations.
