Urgent meeting on Monday over seawater intrusion into Chao Phraya River

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Urgent meeting on Monday over seawater intrusion into Chao Phraya River

 

 

The Office of National Water Resources will hold an urgent meeting on Monday, with the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) and related agencies, to address the intrusion of seawater into the Chao Phraya River. The influx is threatening the production of tap water for consumers in Bangkok and its suburbs.

 

Drought, compounded by high tides, have driven sea water deeper into the Chao Phraya, causing tap water in some parts of Bangkok and its surrounding areas to taste salty, although the MWA has assured that the water is safe and does not yet pose a threat to health.

 

Mr. Somkiat Prajamwong, secretary-general of the Office of National Water Resources, said he expects the meeting tomorrow to develop a plan to deal with the problem.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/urgent-meeting-on-monday-over-seawater-intrusion-into-chao-phraya-river/

 

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[ba ba]

waiting for a brain snap on this one

[Chang_paarp]

Maybe the committee (or rather their minions) could check the archives for the minutes of previous committees set up to investigate the same phenomenon over the past decade and look at implementing some of the recommendations of those committees.

 

Better still make it a standing committee to save the annual elbow shoving to see who gets appointed this year. As a committee they only need to meet as the need arises. Call it a committee on the health of the Chao Phraya river and cover things like flooding when the sea water is being diluted at huge rate, but other things are distracting the locals.

[colinneil]

What a fantastic idea !!!! Set up a meeting, then form a committee, genius thats what it is.

All the top brains will sit down discuss it for hours, then come up with, sod all we can do its nature.????

[RichardColeman]

12 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Set up a meeting, then form a committee, genius thats what it is.

All the top brains will sit down discuss it for hours, then come up with, sod all we can do its nature.????

Final decision after 5 hours was Garibaldi apparently 

[MasterBaker]

Please stop telling me i am drinking from Chao Praya river!

[Crossy]

21 minutes ago, MasterBaker said:

Please stop telling me i am drinking from Chao Praya river!

 

Main intake for BKK is here 14.055523, 100.551693

 

Loads of fish and stuff living in the river.

 

An RO water filter will remove what little salt is in the water.

 

[legend49]

They could talk with Singapore who had this issue and ADDRESSED the problem permanently. Oh I forgot, Thainess gets in the way of that.

[Estrada]

Three major parts of the 1982 water management planning are still missing: 1. The Tidal Barrage at the mouth of the Chaopraya river (to prevent salt water intrusion and alieviate flooding) 2. The Yom river dam which could store water (The Yom RIver has dried up completely several time in the last 10 years. 3. The super floodway to bypass excess water during floods around Bangkok to the sea at Khlong Dan.

 

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

causing tap water in some parts of Bangkok and its surrounding areas to taste salty, although the MWA has assured that the water is safe and does not yet pose a threat to health.

In my experience if you can taste it, it ain't right !!

But yet again the authorities are working with aged infrastructure and cannot deal with the changing times.

New investment is needed in water treatment.... not in submarines or other toys!!

[AhFarangJa]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Mr. Somkiat Prajamwong, secretary-general of the Office of National Water Resources, said he expects the meeting tomorrow to develop a plan to deal with the problem.

Easy solution........line up all the longtail boats pointing out to sea, and rev them at full speed whilst tied to a pier......push the water back..........is that not what they did a year or so ago...........

 

 

[bluesofa]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

The Office of National Water Resources will hold an urgent meeting on Monday, with the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority (MWA) and related agencies, to address the intrusion of seawater into the Chao Phraya River.

Any committee formed will be known as the King Canute Committee.

[Jimbo2014]

Im horrified to learn that tap water comes from Chao Phraya River!!!

[Cake Monster]

10 hours ago, colinneil said:

What a fantastic idea !!!! Set up a meeting, then form a committee, genius thats what it is.

All the top brains will sit down discuss it for hours, then come up with, sod all we can do its nature.????

But they will all eat a good Lunch in plush surroundings for sure.

[BobinBKK]

10 hours ago, legend49 said:

They could talk with Singapore who had this issue and ADDRESSED the problem permanently. Oh I forgot, Thainess gets in the way of that.

Yeah it makes laugh how they think they have the answer for everything and the rest of the world is stupid. Insects have better ingenuity from what I've seen but what do I know... My career expertise was in artificial intelligence ????

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

12 hours ago, colinneil said:

What a fantastic idea !!!! Set up a meeting, then form a committee, genius thats what it is.

All the top brains will sit down discuss it for hours, then come up with, sod all we can do its nature.????

 

Maybe the same committee that's being set up to urgently discuss saltwater intrusion into the river can be merged with the other committee that's being set up to urgently discuss PM2.5 air pollution in BKK.

 

And then they can both sit around and talk until they're blue in their faces about all kinds of things, eat some expensive meals, and then go home to their mia nois without ever accomplishing anything worthwhile.

 

[rickudon]

If the water is salty in January, it will be undrinkable by April ...

[Lacessit]

Most of Bangkok is 1 metre above sea level, so I don't know what else could be expected.

Think of Thailand as a big bathtub. Bangkok is the drainhole.

[Prairieboy]

But, but, but the Navy said yesterday they were going to supply boats to push the water back out to sea.  The new manager of Thailand's water resources will easily solve this problem!

 

[Srikcir]

On 1/6/2020 at 4:15 AM, webfact said:

address the intrusion of seawater into the Chao Phraya River

Might want to also address intrusion into the aquifers where water is withdrawn through wells!

• The production wells in Bangkok are primarily tapping the Phra Pradaeng Aquifer, Nakhon Luang Aquifer and Nonthaburi Aquifer. The salt water intrusion had not been observed until the last 15 or more years when many municipal wells in Thon Buri and Southern Bangkok yielded brackish or salty water. Since then more and more number of wells, especially along the bank of the Chao Phraya river southward from Central Thon Buri and Southern Bangkok, have been abandoned due to salty water.    http://hydrologie.org/redbooks/a120/iahs_120_0510.pdf
• The water in the top most aquifer is not potable due to high salinity occurring since the deposition. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265650600_Groundwater_Situation_in_Bangkok_and_Its_Vicinity

Failure of a comprehensive study of all sources of seawater intrusion into Bangkok's water supply is simply a waste of funds by focusing only on the river itself. But the Office of National Water Resources expects to develop a plan to deal with seawater intrusion in just one meeting within a day!

This is scientific nativity at best and tolerable ignorance at worse.