Pattaya to have enough water for all of 2015, officials tell PBTA

[Rimmer]

Pattaya to have enough water for all of 2015, officials tell PBTA

PATTAYA:--Late-season downpours and steps taken by the Royal Irrigation Department have given Pattaya enough water to last throughout all of 2015, water-supply managers told city business leaders.

Speaking at the Dec. 16 Pattaya Business & Tourism Association meeting, Norapat Ketprakong, representative from the East Water Co., said the irrigation department said there will be enough water for residences and businesses throughout next year due to abundant rainfall that has refilled area reservoirs to an average 60 percent level.

The department also has held 14 million cu. meters of water in reserve while continuing to pump water from the Prasae Canal in Rayong to Nong Plalai.

Since August, 20 million cu. meters have been pumped from the Prasae, but the water flow recently stopped so the department could do pipe maintenance. The pumping will resume next year, Norapat said.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2015-01-02

[Keesters]

So there is enough water in the reservoirs but do they have the resources, treatment, pumps, pipes to deliver it to all properties that require it 100% of the time? In the last 30 years they haven't. Even recently at my house in South Pattaya there have been many days when there's no water in the pipes. And as for pressure well basically there isn't any. To get the water up to a single storey shower head requires an electric pump.

Edited January 2, 2015 by Keesters

[Basil B]

Is this because tourist numbers are down?

[DPGumbypgh]

I will start stockpiling now.