Oink Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Went around Map Phrachan lake today and it looks almost empty. Still no rain! This is going to be a real problem once all these new condo blocks start to turn their taps on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harryfrompattaya Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SidJames Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 I'll never be able to afford to get my car cleaned if this gets worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezzra Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Pattaya, one day...where water will cost you more than sex and beer... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 (edited) My water was off earlier. Late rains this year, but my barrels are full from the heavy drop we had last week. Edited July 5, 2014 by jacko45k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emster23 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water Seems a rather Rube Goldberg way to do it... overbuild so that everyone runs out...only hope is they remain as empty as usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 (edited) You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water The bar stool pundits & clairvoyants have been predicting the demise of Thai tourism, especially in Pattaya, for as long as farang have been here, usually prophesying doom with the highly original " final nail in the coffin" comment. When even these oracles realized the streets weren't deserted & businesses weren't shuttered despite their superior farang predictive powers, they turned their soothsayers' gaze on the water supply (and briefly on the collapse of the electricity supply when Malaysia was doing maintenance work). Been hearing this for years too. I agree that the over-building is over-done and it is outpacing any reasonable sustainability, but the assumption that only farang eyes can see what is beyond the ken of the locals is typically condescending and unsupported historically. One can only wonder where all these farang crystal ball gazers were circa 2007 when the world economy was on the brink of collapse due corruption, greed & woeful lack of foresight in the west. Fortunately the farang planned mega monument to over-building was aborted before birth nearly ten years ago or the world's tallest residential ghetto might be casting its shadow over Jomtien even as we speak. Pretty sure that would have sucked the water system dry, but then maybe that was one of many reasons it was halted. REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTWorld's tallest condo due in Pattaya KANANA KATHARANGSIPORN A German entrepreneur plans to spend six billion baht developing the tallest residential project in the world in Thailand worth 12 billion baht. The 91-storey Ocean 1 condominium, 327 metres in height, is being spearheaded by Siam Best Enterprises Co. It will occupy a site of 12 rai in Jomtien, south of Pattaya, with 611 units, priced anywhere between five million and 150 million baht each, or 100,000 baht per square metre. Bruno ######, Siam Best's managing director, said it would be a new city icon, adding that its height had already attracted bookings of 12% from buyers from Europe, Australia and the United States. The company invested 280 million baht in acquiring the land for Ocean I with the construction financed by TMB Bank. It will be launched officially in October. [2006] http://www.ocean1tower.com/index.php#home Edited July 5, 2014 by Suradit69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobthomas Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water The bar stool pundits & clairvoyants have been predicting the demise of Thai tourism, especially in Pattaya, for as long as farang have been here, usually prophesying doom with the highly original " final nail in the coffin" comment. When even these oracles realized the streets weren't deserted & businesses weren't shuttered despite their superior farang predictive powers, they turned their soothsayers' gaze on the water supply (and briefly on the collapse of the electricity supply when Malaysia was doing maintenance work). Been hearing this for years too. I agree that the over-building is over-done and it is outpacing any reasonable sustainability, but the assumption that only farang eyes can see what is beyond the ken of the locals is typically condescending and unsupported historically. One can only wonder where all these farang crystal ball gazers were circa 2007 when the world economy was on the brink of collapse due corruption, greed & woeful lack of foresight in the west. Fortunately the farang planned mega monument to over-building was aborted before birth nearly ten years ago or the world's tallest residential ghetto might be casting its shadow over Jomtien even as we speak. Pretty sure that would have sucked the water system dry, but then maybe that was one of many reasons it was halted. REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTWorld's tallest condo due in Pattaya KANANA KATHARANGSIPORN A German entrepreneur plans to spend six billion baht developing the tallest residential project in the world in Thailand worth 12 billion baht. The 91-storey Ocean 1 condominium, 327 metres in height, is being spearheaded by Siam Best Enterprises Co. It will occupy a site of 12 rai in Jomtien, south of Pattaya, with 611 units, priced anywhere between five million and 150 million baht each, or 100,000 baht per square metre. Bruno ######, Siam Best's managing director, said it would be a new city icon, adding that its height had already attracted bookings of 12% from buyers from Europe, Australia and the United States. The company invested 280 million baht in acquiring the land for Ocean I with the construction financed by TMB Bank. It will be launched officially in October. [2006] http://www.ocean1tower.com/index.php#home As long as the typically unnatractive and/or socially inept Farang can come to Pattaya and find..........love? Is that the word I'm thinking of here? There will continue to be a never ending supply of tourists and expats, despite a lack of water, or a complete lack of anything and everything else! Besides, most of them don't drink water- they prefer beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeman Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water That's very clever of the Lord, don't you think? No water means no drinking nor soapies. "So the Lord was much displeased and dried up the reservoirs and the multitudes became sore thirsty and unclean and encrusted with salt. And there was a great exodus from Gomorrah to Jerusalem, which verily took up the slack." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oink Posted July 5, 2014 Author Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos Now there is an idea. Put a tax on condo construction to pay for a desalination plant so they can have a water supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vogie Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water Hallelujah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PETERTHEEATER Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 Don't worry. Seawater levels are rising due to global warming and Pattaya is in the front-line...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostmebike Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water The bar stool pundits & clairvoyants have been predicting the demise of Thai tourism, especially in Pattaya, for as long as farang have been here, usually prophesying doom with the highly original " final nail in the coffin" comment. When even these oracles realized the streets weren't deserted & businesses weren't shuttered despite their superior farang predictive powers, they turned their soothsayers' gaze on the water supply (and briefly on the collapse of the electricity supply when Malaysia was doing maintenance work). Been hearing this for years too. I agree that the over-building is over-done and it is outpacing any reasonable sustainability, but the assumption that only farang eyes can see what is beyond the ken of the locals is typically condescending and unsupported historically. One can only wonder where all these farang crystal ball gazers were circa 2007 when the world economy was on the brink of collapse due corruption, greed & woeful lack of foresight in the west. Fortunately the farang planned mega monument to over-building was aborted before birth nearly ten years ago or the world's tallest residential ghetto might be casting its shadow over Jomtien even as we speak. Pretty sure that would have sucked the water system dry, but then maybe that was one of many reasons it was halted. REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENTWorld's tallest condo due in Pattaya KANANA KATHARANGSIPORN A German entrepreneur plans to spend six billion baht developing the tallest residential project in the world in Thailand worth 12 billion baht. The 91-storey Ocean 1 condominium, 327 metres in height, is being spearheaded by Siam Best Enterprises Co. It will occupy a site of 12 rai in Jomtien, south of Pattaya, with 611 units, priced anywhere between five million and 150 million baht each, or 100,000 baht per square metre. Bruno ######, Siam Best's managing director, said it would be a new city icon, adding that its height had already attracted bookings of 12% from buyers from Europe, Australia and the United States. The company invested 280 million baht in acquiring the land for Ocean I with the construction financed by TMB Bank. It will be launched officially in October. [2006] http://www.ocean1tower.com/index.php#home Well done Suradit! An OP mentions how dry a lake is and you see it as yet another opportunity to go on yet another predictable, boring anti anything not Thai rant! Lakes/reservoirs all around the world dry up from time to time but wait a minute ... that's probably due to farangs right? Or would you call foreigners something else in another country? Would you have such disdain for foreigners in another country?? Like I said, boring and predictable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raro Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 We all take a cold shower now as long as there's some water left and chill out a bit. Sent from my GT-N7100 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaowong1 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 The first time I came to Pattaya was in 1988. The headline news then was, Pattaya is running out of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water The bar stool pundits & clairvoyants have been predicting the demise of Thai tourism, especially in Pattaya, for as long as farang have been here, usually prophesying doom with the highly original " final nail in the coffin" comment. When even these oracles realized the streets weren't deserted & businesses weren't shuttered despite their superior farang predictive powers, they turned their soothsayers' gaze on the water supply (and briefly on the collapse of the electricity supply when Malaysia was doing maintenance work). Been hearing this for years too. I agree that the over-building is over-done and it is outpacing any reasonable sustainability, but the assumption that only farang eyes can see what is beyond the ken of the locals is typically condescending and unsupported historically. One can only wonder where all these farang crystal ball gazers were circa 2007 when the world economy was on the brink of collapse due corruption, greed & woeful lack of foresight in the west. Fortunately the farang planned mega monument to over-building was aborted before birth nearly ten years ago or the world's tallest residential ghetto might be casting its shadow over Jomtien even as we speak. Pretty sure that would have sucked the water system dry, but then maybe that was one of many reasons it was halted. REAL ESTATE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT World's tallest condo due in Pattaya KANANA KATHARANGSIPORN A German entrepreneur plans to spend six billion baht developing the tallest residential project in the world in Thailand worth 12 billion baht. The 91-storey Ocean 1 condominium, 327 metres in height, is being spearheaded by Siam Best Enterprises Co. It will occupy a site of 12 rai in Jomtien, south of Pattaya, with 611 units, priced anywhere between five million and 150 million baht each, or 100,000 baht per square metre. Bruno ######, Siam Best's managing director, said it would be a new city icon, adding that its height had already attracted bookings of 12% from buyers from Europe, Australia and the United States. The company invested 280 million baht in acquiring the land for Ocean I with the construction financed by TMB Bank. It will be launched officially in October. [2006] http://www.ocean1tower.com/index.php#home "Construction was then meant to start in August 2006 with completion by December 2009". http://www.pattayadays.com/2013/04/ocean-1-could-be-a-slight-delay/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 You are correct, but I do hope that the interconnecting pipeline to supply Pattaya with water from the other reservoirs is in place already and this problem is recurring every single year, but they still will not get any desalination plants up and running. Sent from my iPad so Please excuse any typos The Lord wants to close Pattaya because of Drinking and Sex So no water Oh yes, a real genuine Sodom and Gomorrah. Yes, the "Lord" is very offended. He thinks sex is bad, as we should not have any real pleasure. And he hates alcohol even more. So, he will cut off the water very soon. The only way he can think of to end this craziness is by using the water supply. Now, that was some good Kool Aid. Spidermike Chaiyaphum, Thailand Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 What is the status of these pipelines and water network to Pattaya? As an engineer I have serious doubts about the quality and quantity of incoming water and also of the treatment of outgoing water. I remember vaguely the last sewar treatment plant being built and Pattaya Bay almost got decent, but I have not heard or seen much as far as the current state of things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwebb8825 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Those of us in the mountain areas are drinking as much beer as we can and peeing as often as we can so Pattaya will benefit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raro Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Those of us in the mountain areas are drinking as much beer as we can and peeing as often as we can so Pattaya will benefit.we much appreciate your efforts. If you need any help, please call. I presume you provide the beer? Sent from my GT-N7100 using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger1999 Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 The first time I came to Pattaya was in 1988. The headline news then was, Pattaya is running out of water. I so believe this. About 15 years ago one of the farang-oriented publications in Chiang Mai ran a story with the headline "We will die of thirst!" Managing a water supply isn't easy but it also isn't that hard. There is plenty of water to go around if you are willing to pay a bit more for it. I just wish California would finance a water pipeline to Alaska. Now their water problem is a bit trickier to solve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARGUSEYE Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 Basically I belong to the TV Pattaya doomsayers club... But when I really think of the water situation, I think about the people who are behind the decision to build these mega - luxury condo projects in town. As much as I hate these projects, I believe that before they give the go ahead, these guys make sure there is a LONG TERM PLAN for the water supply in Pattaya. Anything else would be gross negligence towards the investors.... Or is it another case of TIT?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oink Posted July 14, 2015 Author Share Posted July 14, 2015 Seriously thinking about getting a well. Our problem is that we already have a perimeter wall (yes we should have done it before!). Anyone know of a mobile rig that can be lifted into a garden with a crane? Thanks Oink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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