Don't drink the water - someone just dumped feces in it

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Don't drink the water - someone just dumped feces in it

 

Picture: Sanook

 

LAMPANG: -- Villagers in Lampang in northern Thailand were in uproar after pictures of a truck that sucks waste from septic tanks were posted on Facebook.

 

The lazy truck driver was dumping his filthy feces laden load in a public irrigation canal and in an orchard.

 

The poster on the "Lampang City" page that has 200,000 members said it was disgusting. The truck driver was too fast to allow him to take pictures of the act of him dumping the waste but the aftermath was

there for all to see.

 

Sanook reporters who went to the scene by the railway in Meuang district confirmed that waste had been dumped there.

 

Now the district chief of the locality has called for the arrest and prosecution of the person responsible.

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-09-29

[canuckamuck]

They all do it, for most of these places there is no where to take it. Also, they get away with it so why not.

[impulse]

But I'll bet their tomatoes are scrumptious...

 

[worgeordie]

I asked the man who was emptying our septic tanks,what are

you going to do with the load, taking it up to the strawberry 

fields,was his reply,I have never eaten Strawberries since.

regards worgeordie

[Kerryd]

I recall many years ago when I was living in South Pattaya and many places had to get water delivered due to issues with the city being unable to maintain a steady supply. Homes and businesses were having companies deliver water in those same kind of trucks that other companies use to pump out septic tanks. (Some were suspicious that they were often the exact same trucks.)

It came out in the news that some (or many) of those companies were drawing water out of nearby klongs and ditches instead of from the reservoir.  Made you leery of even having a shower in that water.
 

There was an article awhile ago about the problem with "liver flukes" (wormy insects) in Isaan. People eating fish caught in various ponds/klongs would get infested with the flukes. The flukes mature in the person's liver and then shed eggs which would get crapped out and the crap would end up back in the klongs where the fish would eat the fluke eggs/larva and keep the cycle going. (I tell the g/f that I don't eat fish because I don't like the smell but I've seen where a lot of the locals in her area catch the fish that is sold/eaten there and I want nothing to do with any of it. Fish caught in polluted ditches and canals do not appeal to me at all.)
 

Of course the other issue is cholera. More prevalent in countries that still use "the left hand" method as it is spread through feces (usually through water or food that has been contaminated with feces from infected people). Dump loads of feces into a klong and then someone else comes along and fills a water truck from the same klong. Recipe for disaster.

[gk10002000]

Make sure you all have your Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccines up to date.

[55Jay]

There are ramshackle, tin roof houses with families living in them along the bank of my local water source, which is replenished from an open concrete irrigation klong from a distant reservoir.  I am under no illusions about the potential for raw sewage and gray water in there.  I have 2 phase filter on the house water system but still don't use tap water to rinse my mouth out after brushing teeth.