PM concerned about water situation

[rooster59]

PM concerned about water situation

Vipaporn Pooritanasarn

 

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, 10th November 2018 (NNT) - The prime minister is concerned about the weather situation in the South, and has directed every agency to help victims as a matter of urgency. 

Mr Phuttiphong Punnakan, Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs, as the Spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office, noted today that Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha is concerned about the flood situation in the South, such as in Bang Saphan, and Prachuap Khiri Khan, with continuous heavy rains causing flood damage in many places. 

The Meteorological Department also recently issued a warning concerning many areas, including Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Chumphon and Surat Thani. 

The Prime Minister has made a point of keeping track of the situation and commanded the Ministry of the Interior to work in cooperation with military officers to help members of the public move their belongings to higher locations. 

Furthermore, he told the district officers and local government organizations to be prepared to alleviate the suffering and relocate people living close to the surging water, to safer places. He has also asked members of the public to follow the news from the government closely. 

The Spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office also noted that the prime minister has ordered the Water Resources Management Center to monitor and survey water levels in other areas because the dry season has arrived in some areas. This affects the consumption and agricultural activities of members of the public, such as in the Northeast. Plans are to being devised to cope with any problems that may arise.

 

 

-- nnt 2018-11-11

[Eligius]

'There will be no flooding' assured the wise and prescient junta leader. Remember that one?

[YetAnother]

19 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

commanded the Ministry of the Interior to work in cooperation with military officers to help members of the public

these parties have to be commanded by a prime minister to do this ? so if he didn't command this, these parties would just sit idly by ?

[Thian]

17 minutes ago, Eligius said:

'There will be no flooding' assured the wise and prescient junta leader. Remember that one?

Well i'm dutch and Holland has the best/most expensive systems of the world to prevent floodings...but guess what? They still occur!

 

Edited November 11, 2018 by Thian

[Cadbury]

13 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

these parties have to be commanded by a prime minister to do this ? so if he didn't command this, these parties would just sit idly by ?

I doubt they would sit idly by. I am certain they would spring into action and form a committee. 

While the committee mulls the situation the micro-manager himself gets some airplay for the coming election by acting the hero and taking control. If he gets it wrong he can blame the other parties for not following orders.

[ikke]

Is this a joke ? He said this year he ordered NO flooding, the weather makers didn't listen, 555

 

 

Edited November 11, 2018 by ikke
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[robblok]

1 hour ago, Eligius said:

'There will be no flooding' assured the wise and prescient junta leader. Remember that one?

Yes seems to be the standard line, i know of an other PM who said the same during the worst flooding in Thai history.

 

Stupid the whole lot of them, don't make promises you can't keep.

[robblok]

1 hour ago, Thian said:

Well i'm dutch and Holland has the best/most expensive systems of the world to prevent floodings...but guess what? They still occur!

 

 

Of course they do, and here in Thailand they won't be able to prevent all flooding. They can however improve on what they have now. No flooding is impossible because its never economically viable to protect everything. Right now the PM and the previous one have both done almost nothing about flooding. 

 

Only good thing is the PM has made plans for Ayuttaya and I hope these plans dont get cancelled by whoever comes next. But that seems to be the standard way here.. new goverment new plans and no progress.

 

[marko kok prong]

In other words- do nothing until it does flood.

[jaiyen]

Why doesn't he go and have a look himself ?  No, cos it is raining and he will get wet. He only goes out when its sunny and there are lots of people come to see him so he can try and bribe people to like him !!

[whaleboneman]

3 hours ago, Thian said:

Well i'm dutch and Holland has the best/most expensive systems of the world to prevent floodings...but guess what? They still occur!

 

Sure, but one quarter of your country is below sea level.

[Eric Loh]

3 hours ago, Thian said:

Well i'm dutch and Holland has the best/most expensive systems of the world to prevent floodings...but guess what? They still occur!

 

Good point. Somehow here you can take a government to court. Guess they don’t see your point. 

[Thian]

1 minute ago, Eric Loh said:

Good point. Somehow here you can take a government to court. Guess they don’t see your point. 

They just grab EVERY opportunity to bash the junta, it's getting ridiculous...

 

Yes holland is partly below sealevel but guess what? The floodings are from rainwater in area's above sealevel....happens almost every month somewhere and now the climate is changing fast it happens more often.

 

Holland is already raising the dykes to be prepared for what's coming in the future. Thailand still has to start. But there's no guarantee at all that floodings won't happen, except on a mountain/hill maybe.

[lvr181]

1 hour ago, jaiyen said:

Why doesn't he go and have a look himself ?  No, cos it is raining and he will get wet.

Huh? Wasn't that the "fake news" man? Are you sure it is the Kingdom's PM? Hmm.........????

[robblok]

2 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

Good point. Somehow here you can take a government to court. Guess they don’t see your point. 

Depends a bit what caused the flooding, you should always be able to take a government to court is you can prove they acted negligent. If you got a perfect system in place and it floods because of an extreme event then no problem. However if you order your minions not to release water and by doing so make a bad situation worse that is negligence IMHO. 

 

Anyway i feel all recent Thai leaders have failed because none has done much after 2011. Prayut has now some nice plans for Ayuttaya, but i fear that these will be cancelled just like YL her plans got cancelled. Seems to be the norm here.. for stuff like this there should be 10-20 year plans. 

[Ossy]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

the Spokesperson of the Prime Minister's Office, noted today that Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha is concerned about the flood situation in the South

It's good that the people of the South will now have the feel-good factor that superman Prayuth-erman brings to absolutely every conceivable scenario . . . what a fella!

[Ossy]

5 hours ago, robblok said:

 

Of course they do, and here in Thailand they won't be able to prevent all flooding. They can however improve on what they have now. No flooding is impossible because its never economically viable to protect everything. Right now the PM and the previous one have both done almost nothing about flooding. 

 

Only good thing is the PM has made plans for Ayuttaya and I hope these plans dont get cancelled by whoever comes next. But that seems to be the standard way here.. new goverment new plans and no progress.

 

Come on, robblok . . . cheer up. There might just be a super-duper new fangled government, next year . . . let's drink to that.

[robblok]

Just now, Ossy said:

Come on, robblok . . . cheer up. There might just be a super-duper new fangled government, next year . . . let's drink to that.

I don't really care what kind of government will be in power, I just worry that plans will be cancelled and nothing will happen as per usual. 

 

Nothing much has really happened since 2011 and they should all be ashamed about that. 

[HalfLight]

6 hours ago, ikke said:

Is this a joke ? He said this year he ordered NO flooding, the weather makers didn't listen, 555

 

 

 

Isn't there something they can spray on clouds to stop it raining? Must be something... a fortune to be made what with global warming and stuff...

Edited November 11, 2018 by HalfLight

[Ossy]

4 minutes ago, robblok said:

I don't really care what kind of government will be in power, I just worry that plans will be cancelled and nothing will happen as per usual. 

 

Nothing much has really happened since 2011 and they should all be ashamed about that. 

But should this certain young feller - can't recall his name but it begins with T - manage to summon enough support to get his FF dudes into power, I reckon he'll have flood control as well as making the entire country more attractive for the Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Knobblynese and turning THAI airlines into profitability, all under control by next Songkran . . . oh, and he'll stop young men driving themselves to death and groping the girls whilst he's at it.

[CGW]

"Be silent, unless what you have to say is better than silence"

 

I have no idea who first said that but Mr P could learn if he practised ????  (though I am sure he would disagree!) 

[metisdead]

A troll post containing a disallowed reference to the PM has been removed as well as a reply. 

[Valentine]

When I saw the headline I thought there was going to be a water shortage in the coming months. Another in the long line of misleading headlines.

[zzaa09]

8 hours ago, Cadbury said:

I doubt they would sit idly by. I am certain they would spring into action and form a committee. 

While the committee mulls the situation the micro-manager himself gets some airplay for the coming election by acting the hero and taking control. If he gets it wrong he can blame the other parties for not following orders.

It's quite inspiring that The Gang are so deeply concerned with the people, ain't it?

????

[chama]

10 hours ago, YetAnother said:

these parties have to be commanded by a prime minister to do this ? so if he didn't command this, these parties would just sit idly by ?

Yep....and argue who should take the lead if they ever did get motivated to move forward.

[chama]

Good, he is concerned. Now what? Any provisions being dictated to help the people impacted? Or better yet, any plans for construction to prevent future flooding. At least trying to do more than just talk?

[robblok]

12 hours ago, chama said:

Good, he is concerned. Now what? Any provisions being dictated to help the people impacted? Or better yet, any plans for construction to prevent future flooding. At least trying to do more than just talk?

You should read the topic.. i mentioned about the recently posted plans they had about doing a lot of work around Ayuttaya to combat flooding. If they work on Ayuttaya then it helps upstream and downstream. The more water they can safely drain the better.

 

However.. Yingluck had plans too.. and they got cancelled.. Prayut had other plans they never happened and now there are new plans. So there is never a lack of plans but they seem to cancel the plans of previous governments.. so i doubt much will happen AGAIN. These plans are actually good but i am sure they will de scrapped so the next goverment can get new envelopes.