Popular Post snoop1130 Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 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 -- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-04-23 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post phetphet Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 Only 25? 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cornishcarlos Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 So 1 dispenser for 3 provinces ?? Good job fuel prices are low... 2 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Upnotover Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 minute ago, phetphet said: Only 25? That's fine, 1 per 2,800,000 people, might be a bit of a queue. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post cornishcarlos Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 4 minutes ago, snoop1130 said: through the reverse osmosis [RO] system Mineral water through RO plants !!! 2 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post roger buttmore Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 Wow! 25? .. Amazing Thailand. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Surelynot Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 Got to be a joke 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Barmbeker Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 25!? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DLock Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 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. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jackdd Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 Doesn't reverse osmosis filter the minerals out? So how does this work? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PJPom Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 (edited) There is only one appropriate comment...This is Thailand.. Edited April 23, 2020 by PJPom Correction 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Tea Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OneeyedJohn Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 3% off electricity was quite amusing, but this is beyond a joke. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JAG Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 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! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post bodga Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 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???? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holy cow cm Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 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? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guderian Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 They say that laughter is the best medicine, so many thanks to the author of this piece. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nsp64 Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 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. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rasmus5150 Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 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.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeneking Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 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...... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tifino Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 ... got the number 25, from the Monk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TooBigToFit Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PoorSucker Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 This is why April fools doesn't work in Thailand. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyL Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonray Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Good way to spread the virus unless they hire a lackey to sterilize buttons and nozzle between each user 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeamchabangLarry Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 25 whole dispensers? Don't go too far buddy. ...76 provinces in Thailand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipButty Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post worgeordie Posted April 24, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 24, 2020 I am sure they will be rigorously maintained ,so should last a very long time,???? regards Worgeordie 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grumpy 4680 Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 BRILLIANT, but have border crossings between some the states been re-opened yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkside Gray Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 A whole 25 pieces, Wow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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