Interior steps up on water-storage plans 

By The Nation

 

General Anupong Paojinda, Interior Minister

 

Interior Minister General Anupong Paojinda is accelerating water-storage plans as the drought problems spread, Currently, 18 provinces accounting for 20 per cent of total area in the country are facing the impact of drought.

 

“Four provinces are affected by the shortage of water for consumption, while 14 others lack sufficient water for irrigation,” he said.

 

“We have advised farmers on what kind of plants should be planted under the circumstance while the Cabinet has approved a special budget to tackle the issue". 

 

He added that related authorities, such as the Department of Groundwater Resources and the army, had been tasked with the drilling of artesian wells.

 

"The operation is divided into two periods, from the end of 2019 to April 2020 and from May to July this year," he said.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380554

 

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

“We have advised farmers on what kind of plants should be planted under the circumstance while the Cabinet has approved a special budget to tackle the issue". 

About 3 months too late.

No shortage of storage in my area, just "they" omitted to fill up for a few years! ????

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“We have advised farmers on what kind of plants should be planted under the circumstance while the Cabinet has approved a special budget to tackle the issue".

Off coarse you have, lots of plants grow in dry barren rice fields! more nonsense............

Nasty Farmers not listening to the fine advice given by the caring "government" or more blatant anti-farmer PR?

Edited January 15, 20206 yr by CGW

Is there no way to collect and store rainwater during the rain season?  At least for consumption 

Advised on what type of plants to grow.

Would that be Cactus?

Read what the man said. They have done nnothing. Sod all.

 

And they'll be completely amazed when this year is even worse than last year. Good job most senior people are soldiers eh? That must be their employmeny guarantee, because skill, experience and effectiveness certainly isn't - they're only good for getting their snouts in the trough. Still, the Thai people don't fire them so I suppose they must be happy with them.

 

The hub of non-performance and non-responsibility.

 

Little point "stepping up to water storage plans". The problem is that there is b*gg*r all water to store in the first placem and unlikely to be any for at least six months.

10 hours ago, hotchilli said:

About 3 months too late.

They should have built more lakes right after the big flooding 7 years ago. But thai lack a vision....and they wouldn't listen to the experts.

3 hours ago, Redline said:

Is there no way to collect and store rainwater during the rain season?  At least for consumption 

It's called digging holes, big ones...aka lakes....

6 hours ago, Thian said:

It's called digging holes, big ones...aka lakes....

They don’t seem to be doing it. Lakes seem to evaporate quickly after months of no rain, assuming they are not fed by springs.  Besides, the current reservoir system is not doing the job.  I was thinking smaller scale, for small communities clean drinking water only-like this:

https://www.rainharvest.com/commmercial-and-industrial-rainharvesting-systems.asp

 

Poor people can’t afford clean water, and all the standing water in Thailand is polluted 

Edited January 15, 20206 yr by Redline

5 hours ago, Redline said:

They don’t seem to be doing it. Lakes seem to evaporate quickly after months of no rain, assuming they are not fed by springs.  Besides, the current reservoir system is not doing the job.  I was thinking smaller scale, for small communities clean drinking water only-like this:

https://www.rainharvest.com/commmercial-and-industrial-rainharvesting-systems.asp

 

Poor people can’t afford clean water, and all the standing water in Thailand is polluted 

You think of that system designed by westerners for thailand? They don't need that mate, they can do it thailand style.

On 1/15/2020 at 3:03 AM, webfact said:

Interior steps up on water-storage plans 

Countermanded by other plans:

https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380275

•  “The [Royal Irrigation] department will drain water in dams nationwide to solve the high water-salinity problem,” he said. “We can confirm that there will be sufficient water for the drought season.”  
• "the Royal Irrigation Department will increase the water drained from the Chao Phraya Dam from 85 cubic metres per second to 100 cubic metres per second, starting from January 8 onwards." 

There needs to be a UNIFORM national water management plan!

22 hours ago, Oziex1 said:

Advised on what type of plants to grow.

Would that be Cactus?

...and tumbleweed...