Tap Water To Stop In Several Bangkok Areas

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Tap water to stop in several Bangkok areas

BANGKOK: -- The Samsen tap water plant will stop making tap water Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning, causing Bangkokians in several spots to be without water for about 7 and a half hours.

The Metropolitan Water Authority announced that the Samsen plant would stop making water from 10 pm Tuesday until 5:30 am Wednesday.

The MWA said the shutdown of the plant would be caused by the annual maintenance of the power plant of the Metropolitan Electricity Authority, which provides power supply for the water plant.

The MWA said tap water would stop during the period on the following roads and areas:

Sawankhalok Road

Phitsanulok Road

Nakhon Sawan Road

Bamrung Muang Road

Phra Sumain Road

Samsen Road

Charoen Krung Road

Rama VI Road

Soi Aree Samphan

Pradiphat Road

Rajvithi Road

Yothi Road

Phayathai Road

Si Ayutthaya Road

Rajprarop Road

Thaharn Road

Victory Monument

Thai Road

Rama I Road

Sukhothai Road

Nakhon Chaisri Road

Makkasan Road

Phra Tamnak Suanchit Road

Phaholyothin from Soi Victory Monument 1 to Chatuchak Market

Din Daeng

Pracha Songkroah Road

Techawanit Road

Rama Vi Road

Bamrung Muang Road

Ratjawong Road

Yaowaraj Road

Bantadthong Road

-- The Nation 2010-03-23

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[RegularReader]

The Samsen tap water plant will stop making tap water Tuesday night until early Wednesday morning, causing Bangkokians in several spots to be without water for about 7 and a half hours...

Good to know tap water is "made" here in Thailand. Just as well it's not "grown"...555

[Meridian007]

Hmm, for the conspiratorially-minded out there, I walked along Ratchadamnoen last night to see what the numbers were like. I noticed a number of fire hydrants were tapped and running full-out to provide water for the rally.

If this extends out there, (I see Rajvithi and Yaowaraj Roads, which kind of border the rally), will they turn off the hydrants too? Maybe the hope is that they will disperse more readily without water?

As much as I respect their right to rally, a part of me hopes this will break them, and send them home. It was hard to walk through there, listening to the drivel being spouted on stage, with an unemotional face.

[somchaiq]

If I am not wrong there are a lot red shirts out in this areas.

Bad Luck for them that the Samsen Plant just now have to stop producing Water

[billd766]

This is a perfectly normal happening out in the countryside.

We have water outages for 2 or 3 days at a time for the last 3 weeks.

It is nowhere near as bad as it used to be about 5 years ago when there was no government water for a couple of months at this time of year.

The water rate is 2 baht cu/m and a friends wife used to pay 50 baht cu/m to get it trucked in.

I used to pump it 350 metres from the klong using a chinese copy of a Honda water pump and it cost me about 17 baht cu/m in fuel.

After that I used my pickup truck with the pump and a 1300 litre tank driving a 6 km return trip to the klong which cost about 20 baht per cu/m but there was no real choice.

Now it is a lot better.

[gotlost]

That's OK the sell of Chang and Thai whiskey well just go up.