In Kazakhstan, ‘The Floods Are Over But The Problems Have Just Begun’

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — The dozens of residents who held a weeklong protest outside a government building in the flood-hit town of Qulsary have packed up their tents and their banners — for the moment.

But they are not the only ones crying out for faster and larger government compensation after historic flooding in Kazakhstan.

Beyond the immediate financial fallout in terms of handouts for the tens of thousands who lost homes, livestock, and other possessions in the floods, there is the longer-term impact on th environment and agriculture,…