Water to be discharged in 12 water retention areas on May 1

 

 

Under the instruction of the government, the Royal Irrigation Department will start on May 1 releasing water from major dams into 10 provinces of the lower Chao Phraya river basin in order to speed up the main rice crop cultivation by one month ahead of schedule.

 

Government spokesman Lt-Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Saturday that this would be the second year in a row that the main crop rice cultivation season would be moved forward by one month after the first trial was proven to be very successful.

 

The water will be discharged from dams into 12 water retention areas in ten provinces namely Nakhon Sawan, Chainat, Lop Buri, Saraburi, Sing Buri, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya, Suphan Buri, Pathum Thani and Nonthaburi covering a total area of 1.1 million rai.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/water-to-be-discharged-in-12-water-retention-areas-on-may-1/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2018-04-29

Sounds good until you consider that the usual harvest time for rice is at the point in time that the rainy season is subsiding. Which gives the farmers the ability to harvest the rice without it being spoiled by constant rains. A month earlier would have the harvest at the peak of rainfall for most provinces

I hope the poor buggers up North begging for water gets some. 

10 minutes ago, rosst said:

I hope the poor buggers up North begging for water gets some. 

I wasn't aware anyone in the north of Thailand was begging for water, so the northern areas that have been getting a fair amount of rain, as well as other regions probably won't complain.  The Nan River here has risen as the run off and discharge move south. The water behind the Chao Phraya dam will be released into retention areas in the Central plains as the northern dams prepare for the coming rainy season.

Water to be discharged in into 12 water retention areas on May 1

 

Last we had the rainy season kick in around Songkran was 2011, not good news for Banngkok.