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Thailand Amongst the Top 4 Nations Most at Risk from Severe Flooding


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5 hours ago, wheresbing said:

they need to dredge their waterways and rivers...people forget about sedimentation, tonnes of sediments get deposited thus reducing the amount of water their channels and rivers can hold.

And dykes, dykes and more dykes.

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I always remember Trump standing in New York on a cold winter day and exclaiming, Boy, we could use some of that global warming now! (or similar)

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Possibly this report should reference this page at Statista?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306264/countries-most-exposed-to-floods-by-risk-index-score/

 

The basis for this suggested ranking is not given (but available if you create an account.

 

In my opinion, this ranking is not correct. It may depend on how the risk index score is designed.

 

Other sources that have more prominence and authority in disaster and climate science give different rankings.

 

World Resources Insitute ranks Thailand 12th with China, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam in the top four places.
https://www.wri.org/insights/worlds-15-countries-most-people-exposed-river-floods

You can play with the WRI flood model and see the results in a map here
https://www.wri.org/floods

I think the model is using rainfall statistics to generate flood estimates and spatial population maps to estimate the impacted population rather than reported flood-affected people (which may be the source information used by Statisica)

Another website that gives population at risk is VisualCapitalist
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-highest-flood-risk/

It reports on the population living within the 1% chance annual flood (1 in 100 year flood). It gives the countries by total population at risk - China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

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2 hours ago, Peterphuket said:

And dykes, dykes and more dykes.

The solution is simple but not easy to enact.  Dredging of waterways is part. The other is to either buy land or use royal government land to develop basins along the River run mini canals to farms and have farmers enact the sustainable farm system 

 

Bma instead of screwing the jj market people should create a canal recovery system with a schedule. To clean up the canals in the city.  All the Thais physically fit on welfare should be hired to do this

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6 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

There have been numerous similar "reports" over the past decade or so, which have been largely ignored by various Thai governments.  The Thai youth of today and their children will be paying the price of this inaction in the decades to come.

 

 

Yessir lived here in BKK 1976-1979 and it flooded big time every year.  at most large intersections within the city, small boats would ferry people across the intersection.  We still survived and still went to work daily.

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Now maybe the Thai government will get their act together and start putting in flood control systems. If the right flood control systems (canals , dykes and etc) in place, there will be no flooding in any of the cities. 

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If the sewage systems are not cleaned every year and upgraded (more large diameter) to adapt, for sure the current flooding we have each year in the international cities of Thailand...will only get worse and be a disgrace in front of the entire world.

 

Foreigners who come in the rainy season and end up with water up to their knees, will go back and tell everybody in their countries , that Thailand is not safe place and an underdevelopped country.

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2 hours ago, Zack61 said:

I have a flood free house for sale in Chiang Rai. 
 

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At least you have a second floor.

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I have removed a off topic troll post.
 

Please note if you report a post, don’t then make it worse by also replying to that post, which just causes more deflection.

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4 hours ago, wheresbing said:

they need to dredge their waterways and rivers...people forget about sedimentation, tonnes of sediments get deposited thus reducing the amount of water their channels and rivers can hold.

Dredging and canalisation of Bangkok has the opposite effect - it drains the water table causing subsidence. Bangkok ias a city is sinking.

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1 hour ago, Sigmund said:

If the sewage systems are not cleaned every year and upgraded (more large diameter) to adapt, for sure the current flooding we have each year in the international cities of Thailand...will only get worse and be a disgrace in front of the entire world.

 

Foreigners who come in the rainy season and end up with water up to their knees, will go back and tell everybody in their countries , that Thailand is not safe place and an underdevelopped country.

Nope! not a good view of the problem - lot of people covering their ignorance with a big dose of cynicism.

 

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8 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

The solution is simple but not easy to enact.  Dredging of waterways is part. The other is to either buy land or use royal government land to develop basins along the River run mini canals to farms and have farmers enact the sustainable farm system 

 

Bma instead of screwing the jj market people should create a canal recovery system with a schedule. To clean up the canals in the city.  All the Thais physically fit on welfare should be hired to do this

The Nethelands consist largely of dikes, because more than half of it lies below sea level.

And after the flooddisaster of 1953 people started controlling the water in many ways including dykes.

And those dikes keep the Netherlands dry.

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Did they include New york in the list with all the flooding and dangerous water pile ups in their 3rd world maintenance underground subway network ?

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