The government is giving more importance to water resource management than to the high-speed train project, to ensure that there is sufficient water to meet the demands of the industrial sector, especially in the eastern region, said PM Srettha Thavisin on Friday.

 

Water resource management must be improved, to convince investors that there is a sufficient supply for the industrial sector, adding that he has been told by industrialists, who have factories in the eastern region, about their concern that there may not be sufficient water in April next year.

 

He also said that he has instructed the Irrigation Department to look at the water problem in the eastern provinces, the site of Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC), to make sure that there is a sufficient supply, adding that, when he or other ministers are abroad on “road show” trips to promote investment in Thailand, there must be no press reports of water shortages.

 

Caption: PM Srettha Thavisin gives a speech at “Next Chapter Thailand”.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2023-09-29

 

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This has to be an application for AI!!

 

Sadly, knowing our Thai friends they'd run it on a ZX-81 ????

 

The big inversters abroad want to invest in coutries with good and reliable fast train networks. It would therefore be urgent to male the fast train to connect Bangkok with all the popular destinations in Thailand.

His staff should send out a memo draft to all banks, immigration every govt office, saying that any foreigner who has a blue book, has purchased property in Thailand must not be harassed and stop asking for absurd residence certificate or proof or residency. Any Tom Dick and Harry in a brown uniform or bank clerk or DLT office clerk invents his or her own rules depending on the mood of the day when dealing with a foreigner. This has to Stop now please. ????

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

when he or other ministers are abroad on “road show” trips to promote investment in Thailand, there must be no press reports of water shortages.

Control the media control the narrative. So now we know there will be only happy stories in the press when he leaves, and normal news return when he's back. 

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The government is giving more importance to water resource management than to the high-speed train project, to ensure that there is sufficient water to meet the demands of the industrial sector, especially in the eastern region, said PM Srettha Thavisin on Friday.

The previous Government could not build roads quickly enough to move there War Toys around in the event of an invasion.

Water resources have been virtually neglected in the EEC, and I know for fact that some Factories have been having Water Bowsered in by large Trucks for Months now.

Waste Management, Electric, Internet , and Water are all essential requirements of Industry

What Companies in there right minds are going to Invest in an area with such poor Infrastructure in place,

30 minutes ago, Cake Monster said:

Waste Management, Electric, Internet , and Water are all essential requirements of Industry

What Companies in there right minds are going to Invest in an area with such poor Infrastructure in place,

Yes. The problem is that everything is connected to everything else. Poor management at every level results from corruption and lack of education & training which results from lack of understanding and leadership which results from corruption and hierarchy and cynicism which results from ...

 

If you were new in government and tasked with 'fixing Thailand', where would you start? You've got only 4 or 5 years at most to 'make a difference', for tasks that will take half a century to fix (but only 30 years if you were in South Korea or Taiwan). To make major changes quickly you have to use strong-arm methods, but - as we hope the military might almost now understand - such methods are in the long run self-defeating. But producing fundamental change within a democratic system is almost impossible except in unusual (eg post-war) circumstances. Just ask any Western political leader.