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WATER MANAGEMENT
Summit draws regional leaders, experts on water problems
Anaphat Dechuay,
Janjira Pongrai,
Pongphon Sarnsamak
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- Over 2,000 political leaders, high-ranking officials, water experts and engineers from 37 countries in the Asia-Pacific will be in Thailand this week to seek answers to the world's drought, flood and wastewater problems.

They will be attending the 2nd Asia-Pacific Water Summit entitled "Water Security and Water-related Disaster Challenges: leadership and commitment".

Thai government agencies, the private sector and local communities will also contribute ideas and technology to resolve and manage water-resources issues.

The water summit will include technical workshops and exhibitions until May 20 at the International Convention and Exhibition Centre, commemorating His Majesty's 7th Cycle Birthday, in Chiang Mai.

Deputy Premier Plodprasop Suraswadi, who chairs the Water Resources And Flood Management Committee, said the summit is being held to highlight the necessity for water management and flood prevention due to the impact of climate change.

"We will seek collaboration from water experts at the summit to create concrete plans to handle water problems in the near future," Plodprasop said.

Among the summit guests will be leaders from 10 nations and ministers from 26 countries. About 2,000 water experts and academics are attending from 37 countries in the region.

The king of a country in the region who does not want to be immediately named will also attend the summit, he said.

"I cannot reveal the identity of the king until his arrival day, for security reasons," Plodprasop added.

The technical adviser to the panel, Apichart Anukularmphai, said the Thai government, which is hosting the summit, will propose the meeting set up a US$10million (about Bt296 million) water bond to support research on water-resources management in this region.

"Thailand would provide about $1 million in seed money as the first step," he said.

In one of the exhibitions, four contenders bidding to participate in the Bt350billion water, flood-management and infrastructure projects have detailed their experience and technologies to manage water resources and severe flooding in Thailand and other parts of the world.

The four contenders are Korea Water Resources Cooperation, owned by the government of Korea, ITD Powerchina Joint Venture, Summit SUT Joint Venture, and Loxley.

The winning bidders for the water and flood-management and infrastructure mega projects - divided into nine modules - will be officially announced on June 4.

Monton Panupokin, managing director of K Water, said he expected the firm to win modules A6 and B4 to set up a Bt4billion information centre on water management because of its expertise in establishing such a centre in Korea.

K Water and ITD Powerchina Joint Venture have proposed completing nine modules, worth Bt291 billion, under water and flood management and infrastructure.

There was a strong reaction from environmental activists to an interview given by Plodprasop earlier to the media. He denounced planned opposition by civic groups, calling protesters "garbage" - even though they just wanted to submit petitions.

Hannarong Yaowalers, president of the Foundation for Integrated Water Management, said: "We do not intend to cause disturbance. but only want to tell the world that the ongoing bid for a water megaproject has skipped many legal steps."


-- The Nation 2013-05-15

[MaxLee]

BANGKOK: -- Over 2,000 political leaders, high-ranking officials, water experts and engineers from 37 countries in the Asia-Pacific will be in Thailand this week to seek answers to the world's drought, flood and wastewater problems.

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The winning bidders for the water and flood-management and infrastructure mega projects - divided into nine modules - will be officially announced on June 4....

The rainy season is only a month away, and no actions have been taken other than bidding on Trillion-kachillian "Water-prevention projects Sh*******t load-flooding-on-other-provinces-project" So many months wasted for nothing Edited May 15, 2013 by MaxLee

[Thai at Heart]

Draws experts and Plodprasop....

[chainarong]

Experts on water problems, only hope on opening the meeting , the P.M. refrains from re-writing history and airing the dirty linen problems on her brothers treatment and please don't mention the word democracy as Thailand has no Democracy, just because you have thrown a few crumbs to the peasants , like you can vote, doesn't make the country a democracy.

[bigbamboo]

Oh dear, if Plodrasop is chairing the meeting the mystery man will probably be King Canute.

[Thai at Heart]

Oh dear, if Plodrasop is chairing the meeting the mystery man will probably be King Canute.

Or Posedion. He might struggle to get his trident on the plane though.

[steveromagnino]

Please do not discredit Plodprasop.

He came up with many innovative ideas.

1. To promote the chiangmai animal safari he proposed an exotic feast, with the suggestion of eating the animals

2. In the 2011 floods, he was able to prove wrong 2000 years of science, attempting to push water uphill using a lot of boats. By his own admission, it was a remarkable success, completely saving Bangkok from any flooding

3. He said that any protestors were garbage, and should be dealt with accordingly, thus rewriting both the constitutional right to protest and the basic principles of democracy

With such a wonderful track record, I believe you would do very well to listen to everything he says. After all, the man in Dubai likes him, and at the end of the day, he's richer than yeeeow. And people who are richer than yeeeow are better than yeeeeow. that's the basic Worthington's law. Which is why Floyd "money" Mayweather is better than, for instance, Joan of Arc.

[hellodolly]

Draws experts and Plodprasop....

Is Chalerm invited?

He is an expert on every thing.

If you don't believe me ask him he will tell you he is.

[Baerboxer]

Please do not discredit Plodprasop.

He came up with many innovative ideas.

1. To promote the chiangmai animal safari he proposed an exotic feast, with the suggestion of eating the animals

2. In the 2011 floods, he was able to prove wrong 2000 years of science, attempting to push water uphill using a lot of boats. By his own admission, it was a remarkable success, completely saving Bangkok from any flooding

3. He said that any protestors were garbage, and should be dealt with accordingly, thus rewriting both the constitutional right to protest and the basic principles of democracy

With such a wonderful track record, I believe you would do very well to listen to everything he says. After all, the man in Dubai likes him, and at the end of the day, he's richer than yeeeow. And people who are richer than yeeeow are better than yeeeeow. that's the basic Worthington's law. Which is why Floyd "money" Mayweather is better than, for instance, Joan of Arc.

And he'll be even richer with all these bids flying around. A gifted innovator indeed!

[Thai at Heart]

Draws experts and Plodprasop....

Is Chalerm invited?

He is an expert on every thing.

If you don't believe me ask him he will tell you he is.

He is presumably expert on the variable displacement action of ice on liquids containing alcohol between 6% and 50%.

"You see, in beer it sinks, but in whiskey it floats. Now, what happens to a twizzle stick?" Years of dedicated study....

[hellodolly]

Draws experts and Plodprasop....

Is Chalerm invited?

He is an expert on every thing.

If you don't believe me ask him he will tell you he is.

He is presumably expert on the variable displacement action of ice on liquids containing alcohol between 6% and 50%.

"You see, in beer it sinks, but in whiskey it floats. Now, what happens to a twizzle stick?" Years of dedicated study....

You don't use twizzle sticks in ear medicine.

But that is not to say that Jatuporn understudy dosen't.

[metisdead]

A post in overly large font has been removed as well as the replies. And another nonsense post has been removed.

[ResX]

Since I don't bid for that project let me guest what the bidders are likely to propose. 1. To built additional water retention area for flood mitigation and control with capacity between 3-5 billion cubic meters. 2. Uprating the flood control capability for the Bhumibol dam (Probably Sirkit too), adding its storage capcity by about 700-1000million cubic meters, 3) Develop Integrated Standard Operating for drawdown and refill for all major dams, 4) Improve data acquisition and transmission system 5) Develop advanced flood forecast and flood warning system, and 4) Upgrading storm water management capacity for BKK and major towns. There might be some minor jobs apart from these, but these are the key result areas.

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[OldeBellPedr]

There's a fair number of leaders here in little Chiang Mai: The Sultan of Brunei, Sheikh Hasima the PM of Bangladesh, that nice Mr. Ahdedinajad of Iran. No idea who the un-named king is though. Haven't seen many of them investigating the water sports down Loi Kroh Rd as yet!! Any other 'big hitters' coming does anyone know?

[naboo]

The Prime Minister of Georgia is in town. The police outside his hotel eye'd me very suspiciously as I rode up and down the road looking for some Pad Gra Pao Moo.