kwilco

Fact is the regs in Thailand specify 90 whereas in the West 1.1 to 1 5 what is your myth? Have you measured your Thai balcony?

so what's the process - is this on Samui? You go in after a year to exrtend your visa (O or B?) and then they say "OK give us 4000 baht"?

Interesting, so that is what you do? You report once a year and pay a fine? (2000/4000 baht) - how often have you done that?

You often find changes like this accompany a new manager of some sort, who has decided to show everybody how useful it is by changing things around......... of course in Thai office culture no one can tell him/her that it is a stupid mistake. It will have to run until he has "an even better idea!"

needs to be less than zero - full regrowth can take centuries.

how would you know?

It's pretty clear on this and other threads that many of the expats in Thailand have no idea what a democracy is or how it functions. Basically they resort to cliche and cynicism to hide their own ignorance.

Ignorant comments like that cloud the argumenty in hand - it shows that people really don't understand politics, let alone the politics of Thailand.

It is sad that people don't understand the word "communism" - and like woke, PC and other words it is used in a perverted form as a blanket "bete noire" by the uninformed.

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy." Montesquieu. It seems the military have round down the general Thai populace into a state of apathy - they have a chance to change things but they are letting the military-backed bureaucracy grind them down. there seems to be no "will of the people"

QED - you just don't get the big picture. You are just fixating on one aspect and for some unknown reason you think you are the only one who knows about hydrogen - we ALL know about it and how it can be fitted into the scheme of things and how it is already being used and the future possibilities - you however seem incapable of seeing the whole picture.

Apprarently not, it refers to a type of small Farang the fruit. Something to do with the tone.

Haven't been there for a while - it was my favourite "Pattaya" beach. I don't remember paying, though.

In that their CoG cold be higher from the floor

If you think it's down to what private vehicle we drive then you have a totally blinkered view of the situation.

In the UK my apartment has a balcony rail that is 115 cm. On my house in Chonburi there is a roof patio - the balustrade there is about 60 cm - it's convenient to sit on!!! My rental on SAmui had one small balcony/shelf - that was about 90cm. But the problem with balconies is the human centre of gravity - this varies very little - it is about one inch below the navel - regardless of the person's total height. THis is usually under halfway up the body which means once tilted over the balcony rail the prime force is to topple over the top. THe floor of the balcony is also important so that people don't slip. Either their feet from under them when leaning back or if they slide forward onto the rail. Whatever - the THai specifications are definitely too low even for relatively short people

So still galloping ahead then...

never let anyone near your spine without first taking X-rays!

No we need to know how much is being stored and much much is needed to be distributed and in the case of Samui relate that to the numbers of tourists. The original water allowance did not allow for the visitors as government funding was allocated according to permanent population not visiting.

Kathun and Khlong Din Daeng? I think not - the official start of the pipeline is Phunphin District, 0 I seriously can't find ANY conclusive evidence to say where the water is coming from. THe Ratchaprapha reservoir is highly controversial and already supplies several areas, I wonder if it would be acceptable for it to start feeding elsewhere? To me it looks like robbing Peter to pay Paul.

yes -we all know that already. - what we don't know is how those figures will pan out this year especially for increased consumption.

I've heard to the contrary - that it was coming from 2 reservoirs on the Surat/Thammarat border. Katun and Khlong Din Daeng?

Which Mainland reservoir do you believe the water is coming from?

In March I ended up with a serious chest infection after travelling up North - thanks PM!!!

But when the reservoirs are low on Samui the water is low on the mainland? So it is possible they may be able to fill up but as the water is also supplying three or 4 main ars on the mainland it would seem when there is space in the reservoir there will be no water to spare on the mainland. And if they DID replenish the reservoir and it rains over Samui, there would be less capacity to store the water from that. Has they can control the flow, why don't they pump the water directly into the new pipe system they have laid down all over the island?