Govt orders 25 free mineral water dispensers nationwide

[snoop1130]

Govt orders 25 free mineral water dispensers nationwide

By The Nation

 

 

The government has instructed the Department of Groundwater Resources to set up 25 drinking water dispensers on main roads across the nation to ensure people stay hydrated during the searing hot summer months.

 

In a Facebook post, Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced the plan on Thursday (April 23), saying people will no longer have to spend for drinking water.

 

“These mineral water dispensers will cut down people’s expenses by thousands of baht per year,” CCSA said.

 

“The mineral water will be pumped from artesian wells using solar power and should be able to produce up to 20 cubic metres of water per hour. This water will be purified through the reverse osmosis [RO] system so people can be confident that the water they are drinking is pure, clean and safe.”

 

Three of these mineral water dispensers have already been set up, including one outside the Department of Groundwater Resources on Ngamwongwan Road in Bangkok, one at Si Prachan Methi Pramuk School on Suphanburi-Chai Nat Road and one at the Don Chedi Highway Depot on U Ya-Don Chedi Road in Suphanburi province.

 

The department will be setting up the remaining water dispensers within May at the following sites:

 

1. Ban Huat Community Market, Phaholyothin Road, Lampang

2. Nong Lum Sub-district Administrative Organisation, Phitsanulok-Nakhon Sawan Road, Phichit

3. Nakhon Chum Sub-district Municipality, Phaholyothin Road, Kamphaeng Phet

4. Nong Prue district, Chalermrat Road, Kanchanaburi

5. Ban Khong Sub-district Municipality, Petchkasem Road, Ratchaburi

6. U-Tapao parking area, Suphanburi-Chai Nat Road, Chai Nat

7. Sila Thip Sub-district Administrative Organisation, Saraburi-Lom Sak Road, Lopburi

8. Wang Wa Sub-district Administrative Organisation, Sukhumvit Road, Rayong

9. Bureau of Groundwater Resources Region 3, Suwannasorn Road, Saraburi

10. Sala Lamduan Sub-district Administrative Organisation, Suwannasorn Road, Sa Kaew

11. Khok Sung Samphan Sub-district Municipality, Maliwan Road, Khon Kaen

12. Ban Nong Hai Kham Pia School, Mittraphap Road, Khon Kaen

13. Maklua Mai monument, Mittraphap Road, Nakhon Ratchasima

14. Bureau of Groundwater Resources Region 5, Ratchasima-Pak Thong Chai Road, Nakhon Ratchasima

15. Nakha Sub-district Administrative Organisation, Mittraphap Road, Udon Thani

16. Khok Sung Sub-district Municipality, Nittayo Road, Udon Thani

17. Trakan Phuet Phon district bus station, Ubon Ratchathani-Khemmarat Road, Ubon Ratchathani

18. Hua Hin District Office, Petchkasem Road, Prachuap Khiri Khan

19. Wat Chontharam, Surat-Nakhon Si Thammarat Road, Nakhon Si Thammarat

20. Khlong Phon Pattana Municipality, Petchkasem Road, Krabi

21. Nakhon Si Thammarat-Sathing Phra Road, Songkhla

22. Hat Yai-Pattani Road, Pattani

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30386633

 

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[phetphet]

Only 25? 

[cornishcarlos]

So 1 dispenser for 3 provinces ?? 

Good job fuel prices are low...

[Upnotover]

1 minute ago, phetphet said:

Only 25? 

That's fine, 1 per 2,800,000 people, might be a bit of a queue.

[cornishcarlos]

4 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

through the reverse osmosis [RO] system

 

Mineral water through RO plants !!! 

[roger buttmore]

Wow!  25? .. Amazing Thailand.

[Surelynot]

Got to be a joke

[The Barmbeker]

25!?

????

[DLock]

If they did not include a list of locations, I would have guessed a typo and it should have been 2,500 or at worst 250...but 25?

 

25 water dispensers will keep 60million+ hydrated?

 

Personally, I would not have made a press deal about this...but that's just me.

[jackdd]

Doesn't reverse osmosis filter the minerals out? So how does this work?

[PJPom]

There is only one appropriate comment...This is Thailand..

[Yorkshire Tea]

1 hour ago, Upnotover said:

That's fine, 1 per 2,800,000 people, might be a bit of a queue.

With social distancing, how long?

[OneeyedJohn]

3% off electricity was quite amusing, but this is beyond a joke.

 

[JAG]

1 hour ago, DLock said:

Personally, I would not have made a press deal about this...but that's just me.

I am sure that the head chap for the  Department of Groundwater Resources is a bit hacked off as well - I should imagine that he dressed up specially in his tightest uniform, with all his medals and badges to make the announcement, hung his ID card around his neck so that everyone knew he was important (or maybe just in case he forgot who he was!), and the silly so and so's never even published his photo!

[bodga]

2 hours ago, Upnotover said:

That's fine, 1 per 2,800,000 people, might be a bit of a queue.

@1 metre interval = 2800km  long????

[holy cow cm]

1 hour ago, OneeyedJohn said:

3% off electricity was quite amusing, but this is beyond a joke.

 

I was just in conversation this morning yet again regarding the 3% off electricity. Did they inadvertently leave a zero off of the 3? As far as I am concerned if I had to do anything to get it then I don't want it. Waste o9f my time. What a Joke for 65 million +++ people divided into however many households! At least cut the poor more of a benefit. I actually don't need their hand outs and don't want them!. And now the 25 wells for free water for entire Thailand? This has to be all a bad dream or miscalculation?

[Guderian]

They say that laughter is the best medicine, so many thanks to the author of this piece.

[Nsp64]

Simple really.

It's not about the water dispensers, it's about the backhanders. 

They sit about all day trying to find ways of ripping off the budget.

[rasmus5150]

2 hours ago, bodga said:

@1 metre interval = 2800km  long????

1 meter is not enough. It's actually 2 meters.

 

So it should be 5600km long..........

[greeneking]

1 hour ago, Nsp64 said:

Simple really.

It's not about the water dispensers, it's about the backhanders. 

They sit about all day trying to find ways of ripping off the budget.

Committee to decide where they should be located, bids for the containers, maintenance of said containers, transport and staff to keep them filled, press conference and publicity to announce the initiative.  Letters to 20 richest families begging for their support to make the service more widely available......

[tifino]

... got the number 25, from the Monk 

[TooBigToFit]

This is one of the oddest stories. It must have been the creation of some general's nephew looking to make his first deal with the government. The birth of some little company with another one of those silly names like GangstaThai Inc or FunnyGuy Company.

[PoorSucker]

This is why April fools doesn't work in Thailand. 

[BobbyL]

Incredible. 

[tonray]

Good way to spread the virus unless they hire a lackey to sterilize buttons and nozzle between each user

[LeamchabangLarry]

25 whole dispensers?  Don't go too far buddy.

 

...76 provinces in Thailand

[ChipButty]

Who gets the job of cleaning them? not just the outside the inside needs cleaning and the filters

Im thinking when this is all over they could be converted to serve beer

[worgeordie]

I am sure they will be rigorously maintained ,so should last

a very long time,????

regards Worgeordie

[grumpy 4680]

    BRILLIANT,  but have border crossings between some the states been re-opened yet.

[Darkside Gray]

A whole 25 pieces, Wow!