"She was going there every morning and every evening outside the heat of the day and trying to save whatever cotton she could from the harvest," he says. "Even if the water recedes in time she doesn't think it will be good enough to plant wheat in a month or two because the ground is not good now."
A few weeks into this year’s monsoon season in Pakistan, it became clear that the rains were unlike anything the country had experienced in a long time.
The resulting once-in-a-generation flood has marooned entire villages and killed 1,500 people, leaving a trail of destruction, starvation and disease.
Guest: Christina Goldbaum, an Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times.
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