The PWA supply in the Khaotalo area seems very unreliable lately.  No water yesterday or today, so far, and a while ago the supply was off for about 48 hours.  I assume that they must be working on the system.  The PWA website is pretty much impenetrable and the Help Line has no English option.  Anyone have any information?

2 hours ago, doctormann said:

The PWA supply in the Khaotalo area seems very unreliable lately.  No water yesterday or today, so far, and a while ago the supply was off for about 48 hours.  I assume that they must be working on the system.  The PWA website is pretty much impenetrable and the Help Line has no English option.  Anyone have any information?

No information about your area but where I live the wife is in a group chat with residents in the moobahn and get warnings about power cuts or water outages etc from the headman.

Seems very reliable and also gets other useful info about any burglaries etc, last week got a message about a snake roaming the streets looking for a way out !!

 

Might be worth enquiring if there is anything similar in your moobahn/condo/village ??

That's why I have 3,000 liters in tanks. Also one room wired so I can run 500w from my car. Nothing is reliable in Thailand. Mind you according to google there is no such place as Khatalo...... Although there is in Finland....🤣 and a Thai restaurant..... 

The supply was restored at around 16:00.  Lousy pressure and full of entrained air but at least it's better than nothing.

My 1100 litre tank suffices for 2 days of normal use but does rather restrict use of the washing machine so Missus gets a bit upset.  I'd like a bigger tank but we don't really have the space for one.

17 minutes ago, brian69 said:

That's why I have 3,000 liters in tanks. Also one room wired so I can run 500w from my car. Nothing is reliable in Thailand. Mind you according to google there is no such place as Khatalo...... Although there is in Finland....🤣 and a Thai restaurant..... 

No, it's actually Khaotalo, of course.  My typing skills have been severely compromised by arthritis - and were never much good in the first place!

12 hours ago, brian69 said:

That's why I have 3,000 liters in tanks. Also one room wired so I can run 500w from my car. Nothing is reliable in Thailand. Mind you according to google there is no such place as Khatalo...... Although there is in Finland....🤣 and a Thai restaurant..... 

I am 10km North of town and we seem to do pretty well these days. Less so when I first moved here. Water delivered with a fair pressure too. Touch wood!

21 hours ago, doctormann said:

The PWA supply in the Khaotalo area seems very unreliable lately.  No water yesterday or today, so far, and a while ago the supply was off for about 48 hours.  I assume that they must be working on the system.  The PWA website is pretty much impenetrable and the Help Line has no English option.  Anyone have any information?

We're in Padtanakan rd  very close to Khaotalo  and have been having Water supply problems for over  3 weeks, some days its on, some days its off, under pressure from me my Thai Mrs calls them & is told  "A big problem, broken pipe in  Siam country club Soi,  it will be fixed by tomorrow 6pm", 3 days later it was fixed,  only to find it went off again, and another phone call to be told   Siam country club Soi ................. Again, dont know how long this  is going on for,  but my tank is almost dry

Here in Ayutthaya the water pressure is very hit and miss ( mostly miss ).

Initially I thought there was no water at the weekends ( as that is what the wife would say ) but it was actually reduced pressure which was failing to make it up into the tank !!

I added another tank and joined them together using the drain plugs, put a couple of taps in the line so they can be drained individually for cleaning. They are around 5 metres apart but works great.

Also noticed the float valve was quite low down so lifted it up with some additional pvc pipe. 
Now have 1500 litres instead of 700 litres storage when the water pressure increases, usually at nighttime.

 

As the kids became teenagers the water consumption increased, what are they doing in that shower ?? !!, so went old school.

Piped straight from the mains into 2 bathrooms and installed “ douche “ type bathing, also ran a line to the washing machine and installed another outside tap, before the tank, for watering the garden.

 

Despite all these modifications we still run out of water occasionally so following a lead from a neighbour I bought a submersible pump, for garden fountains etc , and if the water level in my storage gets down to around half then i open the mains water into one of those large storage containers with rollers underneath and pump it into the tank. 
Works a treat.

 

I try to keep on top of it as a couple of weeks ago there was zero city water coming in but luckily we had enough water until it came back. It was really low pressure for a couple of days so I put the pump into action and filled the two tanks, sorry neighbours 😐.

 

A year ago we had a big outage and there was zero water for about 10 or 12 days, we had to resort to the Tessabahn water truck filling our tanks, the water was terrible, looked like it was straight from the khlong. When it settled could see silt and bits of straw covering the bottom, had to clean both tanks when water resumed !!

 

when i had no water, my land lady said : jai yen yen, in a month or two youll be able to flush your toilet and have a shower again

 

you mean khao talo

8 minutes ago, mordothailand said:

when i had no water, my land lady said : jai yen yen, in a month or two youll be able to flush your toilet and have a shower again

 

you mean khao talo

Yes, i did a typo.

3 hours ago, actonion said:

We're in Padtanakan rd  very close to Khaotalo  and have been having Water supply problems for over  3 weeks, some days its on, some days its off, under pressure from me my Thai Mrs calls them & is told  "A big problem, broken pipe in  Siam country club Soi,  it will be fixed by tomorrow 6pm", 3 days later it was fixed,  only to find it went off again, and another phone call to be told   Siam country club Soi ................. Again, dont know how long this  is going on for,  but my tank is almost dry

Pressure is a bit low again today.  Was OK earlier but has now dropped so my pump keeps kicking in.  At least we still have some water coming in - for now!

5 minutes ago, doctormann said:

Pressure is a bit low again today.  Was OK earlier but has now dropped so my pump keeps kicking in.  At least we still have some water coming in - for now!

And now it's failed completely!!

On 10/25/2025 at 12:37 PM, doctormann said:

Pressure is a bit low again today.  Was OK earlier but has now dropped so my pump keeps kicking in.  At least we still have some water coming in - for now!

It's a new problem,  yet another bust pipe in Padtanakan rd  outside Phu Tara Village was fixed as of 10pm 26 october

34 minutes ago, actonion said:

It's a new problem,  yet another bust pipe in Padtanakan rd  outside Phu Tara Village was fixed as of 10pm 26 october

The supply in Khaotalo was interrupted yesterday - started to trickle back by about 15:00 and was more or less OK by evening.  Seems OK today.

22 hours ago, doctormann said:

The supply in Khaotalo was interrupted yesterday - started to trickle back by about 15:00 and was more or less OK by evening.  Seems OK today.

Yes, all ok for now