Phuket water reservoirs enough to last 33 days

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Phuket's reservoirs have enough water to last 33 days, says the island’s water reserves chief. Photo: Waranya Prompinpiras
 

PHUKET: The last water remaining in the island’s three main reservoirs is enough to last 33 days, the Director of Phuket Provincial Irrigation Office (PPIO) has reported.

 

The news comes after a report by the PPIO on Wednesday (Apr 10) noted that the reservoirs had enough water for the island to last just 24 days – until about May 4.

 

Now, under the latest report, the reservoirs are expected to last until mid-May.

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-water-reservoirs-enough-to-last-33-days-71094.php#kFDS5mC3fJtzIgjX.97

 

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And yet the insane songkran continues....ShamlessThailand

Perhaps a couple of desalination plants would be in order - Perhaps authorities should consult Saudi Arabia who are well versed in desalination. 

1 hour ago, Prairieboy said:

Perhaps a couple of desalination plants would be in order - Perhaps authorities should consult Saudi Arabia who are well versed in desalination. 

Desalination plants use an enormous amount of energy and produce copious amounts of waste material.  Best solution for Saudi perhaps, but not here.

I can't believe that on a tropical island with an annual rainfall of 2500 mm they can't manage to retain sufficient runoff to cope with any demand! 

Dig some more big holes in the ground!

I believe they are now reading the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

3 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Perhaps a couple of desalination plants would be in order - Perhaps authorities should consult Saudi Arabia who are well versed in desalination. 

Yes, definitely, using Israeli technology which uses energy offered by the sun, cleans the remnants of the seawater of pollutants that were already in the intake, and cleaner but salter water are pumped back in the sea, extra unnecessary electricity is delivered back to the net.

 

1 hour ago, Old Croc said:

Desalination plants use an enormous amount of energy and produce copious amounts of waste material.  Best solution for Saudi perhaps, but not here.

I can't believe that on a tropical island with an annual rainfall of 2500 mm they can't manage to retain sufficient runoff to cope with any demand! 

Dig some more big holes in the ground!

Spot on...the amount of water Thailand allows to be wasted through mismanagement every year is phenomenal and those in charge should be ashamed at the sorry situation they find themselves in annually.

41 minutes ago, Oziex1 said:

I believe they are now reading the novel Dune by Frank Herbert.

Dune Messiah, probably.

6 minutes ago, edwinchester said:

Spot on...the amount of water Thailand allows to be wasted through mismanagement every year is phenomenal and those in charge should be ashamed at the sorry situation they find themselves in annually.

Don't know where you come from, but I seem to remember that a water company in England is losing 30% of it's water through leaks, while New York is losing even more, it seems.

7 minutes ago, hansnl said:

Don't know where you come from, but I seem to remember that a water company in England is losing 30% of it's water through leaks, while New York is losing even more, it seems.

I'm from the UK and yes the amount of leakage in some of the Water Authorities is disgraceful. Privatisation, whereby money is given back to shareholders rather than reinvested, is partly to blame.

But this is a Thai forum and Thailand should be able to meet all of it needs easily from a huge annual rainfall but for whatever reason seems to put up with annual floods followed by worries of impending drought.

4 hours ago, Prairieboy said:

Perhaps a couple of desalination plants would be in order - Perhaps authorities should consult Saudi Arabia who are well versed in desalination. 

What !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! spend money... 

cheaper to wait for the rain !

3 hours ago, Old Croc said:

Desalination plants use an enormous amount of energy and produce copious amounts of waste material.  Best solution for Saudi perhaps, but not here.

I can't believe that on a tropical island with an annual rainfall of 2500 mm they can't manage to retain sufficient runoff to cope with any demand! 

Dig some more big holes in the ground!

Use land for big holes when they can build more hotels and condos on it. And by doing so adding to the problem instead of fixing it. Let’s say I see more building construction work than new water reservoir’s being made here.

 

Well that really is very poor planning - TAT is busy promoting Phuket to the global masses and makes Phuket an affordable tourist destination...but the town planners in their wisdom forgot that those tourists and the influx of local workers will all raise the water requirement. I have never seen what happens when a big tourist town runs out of water for showers etc. 

 

 

Give Prayut 7 days he can fix it.

41 minutes ago, losworld said:

Give Prayut 7 days he can fix it.

Of course he can, he just has to pick 7 days in June or July.