Command centre set up for drought mitigation

By Sayan Chucham 
The Nation

 

 

While the Yom River at tambon Wang Chik of Phichit's Pho Prathap Chang district has almost dried up, provincial governor Worapan Suwannus has set up a command centre for drought prevention and mitigation.

 

The centre will monitor and analyse the drought situation daily, assist related agencies in drought prevention and mitigation missions and keep the public updated, he said. 

 

The authorities also mapped out locations to supply drinking water in each district, while preparing manpower and tools.

 

As the parched section of the river in Ban Wang Thepho still had some  water in low-lying areas, farmers used water pumps to irrigate their rice fields. This will soon drain, however.

 

Worapan also had the centre formulate guidelines for drought prevention and mitigation. For farming, the centre was to plan better water management, both inside and outside the irrigation zone, while prompting farmers to seek back-up water sources and grow plants that required much less water than rice-growing. 

 

So far this year, this central province had already reduced the number of rice fields by 100,000 rai by prompting farmers to grow maize or low-water crops such as green beans and soybeans and having farmers prepared enough grass to feed their livestock herds throughout the dry season.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30365783

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

The centre will monitor and analyse the drought situation daily, assist related agencies in drought prevention and mitigation missions and keep the public updated, he said. 

...and continue to publish useless predictions as the office at the left wing of the  building predicts drought and the left no drought. Elsewhere they predict water shortage / no water shortage or flood / no flood. Meanwhile no predictions from the Ministry of Illumination. Their staff can't agree to decide if it becomes dark tonight or not.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

command centre for drought prevention

Bit late in the day I would have thought! 

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Command centre set up for drought mitigation

mitigation - a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances.

source:  https://www.thefreedictionary.com/mitigation 

 

Lots of maps, field trips and pointing to be expected, with few if any positive results