Almost four months after Thailand's worst floods in half a century, people in the suburbs of the capital are still waist deep in water as clean up operations get under way.
Residents say they are paying the price for the government's efforts to keep the inner part of the city dry.
In some areas the government has offered households $150 for repairs, but this aid has not been extended to everyone yet.
Al Jazeera's Wayne Hay reports from the capital, Bangkok.