Bangkok: Three Million Tonnes Of Garbage, Dirty Water To Deal With

[haihoa]

Your comment was all good and right in my eyes, until that BS about "spreading the water evenly" came up.

There is no way in heaven or hell that would work, because Bangkok is not flat!

This ain't Kansas, either, Dorothy. What do you think all the canals (Klongs) were designed to do, Doc? Since the Klong 9 sluice gate was welded open, there has been this mystifying phenomenon of water traveling "uphill" toward "heaven and hell," depending on your vantage point. Most of the dykes that were hastily constructed targeted poor communities along the river...not by design initially, perhaps...to try to immediately contain water destined to flow into "central Bangkok" (wherever the hell that is). Had the decision been made to allow water to travel to Klongs that could not contain, obviously, abnormal flood levels, we would have seen MORE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED flooding occur. Hindsight is easy; "high-sight" is unforgivable. Bangkok is one of the flattest cities in the world, as are most cities located in or near river deltas and marshlands. No BS, Doc. Look around you the next time you're out and about Bangkok...maybe in three to four weeks.

[englishmel]

Most of the "relief efforts" are the cause and contributors of this greater trash problem. Supposed good samaritans are passing out hundreds of thousands of styrofoam boxes full of rice and packed plastic bottled water every day -- most if not all which will be used one time and thrown out into the water, if not simply burned. Thai people today are lazy and have forgotten their roots of "Pin To" or food pails and banana leave wrapping.

[elcent]

bon appétit

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or you open a temple for the rats like that one.

This is maybe the main reason for traveling to India. You know who i mean

Edited November 8, 2011 by elcent

[leogerritsen]

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