No water in parts of Korat

[humdrumdays]

Does anyone know the real reason why there has been no mains water in parts of Korat city for 2 weeks?

[Kwasaki]

No rain. 

[soalbundy]

I am in Prasat/Surin in the country. Although we have mains water I have had it disconnected because of low water pressure and now rely on my own pump to pump up groundwater which we use for showering, washing machine and the toilet, for drinking water we use rainwater cisterns. This has worked well for 13 years, the pump sucks groundwater from a depth of 28 meters. In the last few days we are getting little to no groundwater, the well has dried up, there has been no rain for months. The mains water comes from a lake nearby and I have observed that it has considerably shrunk in size. This also means that our cisterns are also near empty. Politicians say there will be no drought this year, we are already having one. 

[Bob12345]

No problems at Koh Kaew, water enough here.

Cannot comment on pressure as all houses here have their own storage and pump.

 

Not sure how the mains are connected on the island; if they are totally disconnected from region to region.

Edited February 26, 2019 by Bob12345

[jaiyen]

The government has been wasting millions of litres spraying precious water into the air to achieve nothing. Will be a big drought this year and then poor rice crops.  They never learn !

[CGW]

We were in a similar position in Udon, then about a week ago we had a huge storm that dumped about 3" of water, which was  really appreciated by the garden as had seen no rainfall since mid September, then last night we had a mega hailstorm, first for me during my 40 years in SEA, it was epic 

Did some damage unfortunately, punched holes straight through Polycarbonate sheeting and did the Mango trees no good at all!

 

 

 

Edited February 26, 2019 by CGW

[connda]

7 hours ago, soalbundy said:

Politicians say there will be no drought this year, we are already having one. 

Leave it to politicians to tell you to ignore what you see with your own eyes. 

[DJ54]

Water is an issue up here in the Northeast on a continual basis. 

The city (village) works / doesn’t work at times and low pressure. 

 

We have a well wit holding tank and village water. A man came by and looked at the set-up which to holding tank was useless. He changed some pipes and now all is working really good. More pressure than needed and adjusted accordingly. 

 

A pump for well and pump pump for holding tank. Prior only on to 

the well. 

[swissman53]

Thats why i have 2 tanks 1500lt and a pump, so i have water all the time in Korat Nai Mueang.

A few years ago we had only water for 2 hours a day. Enough time to fill up....

Tank and pump 10'000 bath toegether. A good investition.....

[Joinaman]

no water for us in the village now for over 4 days, told maybe not for another couple of days. The guys doing the new roads moved the electric wires, then turned on the power, blew up the switches for the pump on the water tower. Told the guy who mends these is on holiday in Laos, so got to wait till he comes back. My tanks are empty, but grandmas house the other side still has water, so got to go their for the old fashioned shower and collect water for the house But a couple of houses with bore holes have dried up, and they have had new holes drilled, but not sure how long these will last either

[djayz]

What part of the city do you live in? 

I lived in Muen Wai a few years ago, which is notorious for it's lack of a steady, regular, reliable water supply. Something to do with the water supply not being enough / the pressure not strong enough to reach that part of the city. We used to have to have it trucked in and stored in water tanks. 

It might just be your neighbourhood. 

Edited February 26, 2019 by djayz

[ballpoint]

We have 3x 2,000L stainless steel tanks (for the bathrooms) and 1x 5,000L plastic one (for the kitchen), all able to be supplied by the village water mains via taps fitted with ball cocks.  In the dry season, the taps are always open and the tanks are automatically topped up whenever the village water supply is running.  In the wet season, the taps are closed and the tanks kept full (usually overflowing) from the roof runoff.  If the level of one or more tanks does drop due to a long term interruption in the water supply, we have a petrol powered Honda water pump and a 1,200L caged plastic portable tank, and get water from the dam at the river to top them up.  If the dam ever totally dries up, which it hasn't in the 25 odd years since they built it, and the village supply fails, then I guess we'll either look for an alternative supply to fill our portable tank from, or go on an extended holiday until it rains again.  There has also been a lot of reservoir building activity in the past year.  Two enormous, and a bunch of smaller, ones have been dug near our village.  All we need is a bit of rain to fill them up.

 

[Chongalulu]

On 2/26/2019 at 7:53 AM, soalbundy said:

I am in Prasat/Surin in the country. Although we have mains water I have had it disconnected because of low water pressure and now rely on my own pump to pump up groundwater which we use for showering, washing machine and the toilet, for drinking water we use rainwater cisterns. This has worked well for 13 years, the pump sucks groundwater from a depth of 28 meters. In the last few days we are getting little to no groundwater, the well has dried up, there has been no rain for months. The mains water comes from a lake nearby and I have observed that it has considerably shrunk in size. This also means that our cisterns are also near empty. Politicians say there will be no drought this year, we are already having one. 

Interesting, we recently bought a plot of land in Pak Chong and had a groundwater pump system installed. They were drilling all day with specialised equipment and counted the sections calculating a depth of circa 35 metres. They lowered the electric pump and very clean,clear water comes up. Paid 25 k for everything including the (Italian) pump.