PM confident no massive flooding this year

[Jonathan Fairfield]

PM confident no massive flooding this year

By The Nation

 

 

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is pleased with the Royal Irrigation Department’s handing of waters from upstream rivers and is confident there will be no massive flooding in central provinces this year.

Government Spokesman Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the prime minister has been briefed on operations to draw rainwater upstream into 12 rice field basins in central provinces along the Chao Phraya River, to reduce water heading to Bangkok and other provinces.

 

Drawing water into the 12 basins provided more capacity for the Chao Phraya and its tributaries to receive more rainwater during the late part of the rainy season.

 

Sansern said Prayut is confident there would be no massive flooding this year because the Meteorological Department predicted that the cold ridge of high pressure mass from China would come to Thailand sooner this year, so rains would stop sooner.

 

Moreover, the government has released rainwater from dams and reservoirs upstream, following the first round of heavy rains and storms this year, and the waters have been drawn to flood the harvested rice fields in the 12 basins. As a result, dams, such as Bhumibol Dam and Sirikit Dam, have at least 30 per cent of their capacity available, Sansern said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30355016

 

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-09-22

[Esso49]

Guess that's OK then.  Thanks PM for sorting the weather out,  just need to do something for the country now

[colinneil]

If the PM is confident no massive flooding, then it is time to start worrying.?

[Justgrazing]

" Five fortune Teller's told me there will be no floods ..

[Captain_Bob]

It's so comforting to know how this guy "feels". If he's pleased and confident, the nation can sleep at night ? 

[RichardColeman]

28 minutes ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

PM confident no massive flooding this year

.....................and election in February.

[bluesofa]

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

" Five fortune Teller's told me there will be no floods ..

I thought it was a King Canute impression there.

[BigBadGeordie]

And on the seventh day Uncle Too ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 

[bluesofa]

3 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

And on the seventh day Uncle Too ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 

from all his work which he dreamed had done. 

 

[BigBadGeordie]

Just now, bluesofa said:

from all his work which he dreamed had done. 

 

Harsh.

Harsh indeed, what about all the good things he has done..........

Beach chairs and, well err, and err.

Never mind, I do not have to give examples, because......

But, but, Thaksin.

[Ossy]

9 hours ago, BigBadGeordie said:

And on the seventh day Uncle Too ended his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. 

And on his Article 44-enabled 8th day, he decided it was time to practise walking-on-water . . . 'After you, Sir', he said to his cardboard cut-out.

Edited September 23, 2018 by Ossy
omisson

[Dave67]

Hes put himself in charge of the weather with a 44

[DM07]

I hope, he will have a nice discussion...one day...with all the folks, who's houses have been washed away, during the last 4 month...

[Cadbury]

15 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

to draw rainwater upstream into 12 rice field basins in central provinces along the Chao Phraya River, to reduce water heading to Bangkok

".....to reduce water heading to Bangkok". And there in a nutshell is what it is all about. 

[holy cow cm]

And the world’s savior has spoken. 

[bluesofa]

17 minutes ago, holy cow cm said:

And the world’s savior has spoken. 

The world's saviour has spoken in Thai - I wonder who was listening?

 

[Hayduke]

 

All is well. We only need to love Uncle...

 

Edited September 23, 2018 by Hayduke

[Ossy]

2 hours ago, Cadbury said:

".....to reduce water heading to Bangkok". And there in a nutshell is what it is all about. 

You'll be telling me, next, that Prayuth lives in Bangkok, when, as he reminds us every Friday night, he lives in Heaven.

[rwill]

last year didn't they say at one point there was no flooding only water that needed to be removed.

[Lupatria]

Take the risk and look out the window uncle!