DPM Prawit orders rainmaking operations ahead of dry season

[snoop1130]

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has expressed his concerns for villagers affected by the drought disaster, ordering water agencies to move forward with water management operations, including artificial rainmaking.

 

The National Water Resources Committee chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit acknowledged the proposed measures to manage high water volume from the rainy season, as well as the rainmaking operations to increase water supply during the dry season.

 

The Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation is already proceeding with rainmaking operations over reservoirs to increase the water supply for use during the dry season.

 

The committee ordered a follow-up on the study of desalination to be concluded before year’s end. If feasible, desalination plants could be built in special economic zones in the eastern region.

 

The committee also approved additional drought mitigating measures for the year 2021-2022, including water retention, backup water supplies for drought-hit areas, water volume increasing operations, dry season cultivation planning, water reserves for lowland farming, water quality monitoring, and relevant follow-ups and evaluations.

 

-- © Copyright NNT 2021-12-09

 

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[ThailandRyan]

He will be needing one of these

 

Then he can do his own rain dance.

[Nojohndoe]

A desperate PR appeal to indicate some relevance in continued presence ? Or is it a justifiable "heads up" to state funded departments to be proactive in the well funded services they  claim to provide or in some instances have yet to provide what they have claimed to have done?

 

 

[herfiehandbag]

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

He will be needing one of these

 

Then he can do his own rain dance.

Looking at the OP photograph and then your post conjures up some unsettling, alarming if not downright obscene images!

 

I may have to turn to the demon drink tonight...

[Willy Wombat]

DPM Dimwit , the voteless deputy trying to stay in the nations glare by looking to do something rather than looking like a Lego haired slob

[Danderman123]

What could possibly go wrong?

[rwill]

The local reservoir here is the fullest I have ever seen it in the last 9 years.  A couple of years ago the army can in and made it about 30% larger too.  It's close to overflowing now.  A few years ago it was about 10% full, looked like it was going to go dry.

[mtls2005]

Amazing they need orders for this annual exercise in futility?

 

Imagining the pilots and silver iodide shovelers lounging around in their hammocks "working", simply waiting for their "orders". And then scrambling like some WW2 Spitfire pilots.

 

 

 

 

[RafPinto]

Orders. Is he Chachas brother?

[hotchilli]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has expressed his concerns for villagers affected by the drought disaster, ordering water agencies to move forward with water management operations, including artificial rainmaking.

I guess he has to say something to justify lunch.

[khunjeff]

13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan...order[ed] water agencies to move forward with water management operations

Thank god for men of vision like him - I'm sure the water agencies never would have thought of managing water operations without his bold orders to spur them on.

[puck2]

2 hours ago, rwill said:

The local reservoir here is the fullest I have ever seen it in the last 9 years.  A couple of years ago the army can in and made it about 30% larger too.  It's close to overflowing now.  A few years ago it was about 10% full, looked like it was going to go dry.

I guess your "full reservoir" didn't depend on orders of the military government, but on the natural rain.

 

At least here in our Mae Hong Son Province we have had a lot of rainy days, this year.  Because the nearly daily rain wasn't too strong, the earth could absorb it. The earth was very hungry for the water missing a normal volume within the last rainy seasons.  Since a few weks the rain has stopped here.

 

Obviously the same happened in your Isaarn(?) province.

 

Our dog knows more about the climate here in the the North than the military squads. They prefer to stay in their very nice and comfortable houses in the North of Chiang Mai and to "exercise" there.

[chilly07]

Given that we have come out of one of the longest wettest rainy seasons with sluice gates having to be opened on many reservoirs and many roads dug up in Pattaya for flood relief measures this seems premature. Full marks for forward planning though!

Yes they can borrow our dog who can detect rain when even the fanciest satellite weather forecasts miss it

Edited December 10, 2021 by chilly07

[Cake Monster]

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

He will be needing one of these

 

Then he can do his own rain dance.

Bloody Hell !

The Image of Prawit dressed like this conjures up visions of a Ball Bearing with feathers sticking out all over the place

[brianthainess]

Has Mr Dimwit looked up lately, there are no clouds to seed.

[MrJ2U]

"It is also used to describe a confidence trick where the scammer takes money from the victim to influence a system over which they have no real control, but a random chance of the outcome happening anyway"

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainmaking

[RobU]

Rainmaking operations involves using aircraft to seed clouds with dry ice to encourage precipitation (rain). If there are no clouds then it cannot happen

[RubbaJohnny]

Wat Er Shower

[Albert Zweistein]

17 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Bloody Hell !

The Image of Prawit dressed like this conjures up visions of a Ball Bearing with feathers sticking out all over the place

Ball or roller bearing ?

[Kenneth White]

You can't mess with Mother Nature. I remember back in the 60s Hurricane Donna sat of the east coast of South Florida. NOA and other agencies decided that seeding the clouds in this Hurricane would cause the storm to rain its self out before it hit the South Florida coastline. LOL! It sure did rain its self out but not in the Atlantic ocean but over South Florida. That was the worst flooding that I can recall having lived in south Florida most of my life. Water management is tricky at best. Bottom line is you don't "F" with Mother Nature you may not like the results.