Crucial water management meet this Thursday

BANGKOK: -- The Water Resources Policy and Management Committee will meet this coming Thursday to try to finalise the water management multi projects so several of the projects can be implemented this year.

Commerce Minister General Chatchai Sarikulya , chairman of the committee, said that the 350 billion baht water management projects which were initiated by the previous government need to be entirely overhauled because it lacks necessary details.

He said that the fund needed for the projects would come from the Central Fund with about 60 billion baht to be allocated for each year of implementation but, for the first year, about 100 billion baht would be needed to implement about 10,000 projects.

The revised projects will cover projets to deal with drought problem, flooding, irrigation and water for consumption, said General Chatchai.

However, he pointed out that this year’s drought problem has been so serious that remedies have to be implemented quickly to ease the problem.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/crucial-water-management-meet-this-thursday

-- Thai PBS 2015-03-15

Well how about banning Songkran this year if the water is so much in need for farmers. Oh, no. What was I thinking, this year across the country it has been extended from the normal 3 days to 5 days. Yippie!!

What ever happened to the 2006/07 Water Mitigation management Plan?

Well, if the "government" needs more than 1 year to solve the lottery ticket pricing, I guess a project of this magnitude will take a century or two??

Scary that so many incompetent people have access to billions of baht to play around with!!

Surely K. Plodprasop can bring his water pushing machines in to play here.

Just put them in reverse.

"BANGKOK: -- The Water Resources Policy and Management Committee will meet this coming Thursday to try to finalise the water management multi projects so several of the projects can be implemented this year."

Like what??? Same old thing, flooding the rest of Thailand to save Bangkok only bangkok?

For the last 20 or so years we have designed and manufactrred (yes right here in The Kingdom) The Best Damn Reverse Osmosis Systems in the Whole World.

Very few do we sell in Thailand, over a 1000 units have been designed, manufactured and shipped to other countries, oil rigs, vessles.

With all the Water problems here in Thailand it our toughest market to sell in.

With the lack of rain especially here on Samui, well are now starting to go dry, There is no magic well under Samui, no rain, no water!

No one seems to care, until they don't have water.

The same old problem to many people using to few or limited resources.

Recyceling and conservation of our resources is non existant, reuse of "grey water" for gardening, reusage of "Back Wash Water" from filters.

No one seems to care until it is to late!

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What ever happened to the 2006/07 Water Mitigation management Plan?

My thoughts exactly CL

It is not surprising to see the necessary details lacking in Yinglucks water Mitigation box of tricks , but I bet in five years time we will be still writing about this subject and all in sundry wondering why the details are still missing.

Didn't KL have a similar problem with flooding?

Yes KL has problems with flooding hence the huge project to implement a tunnel capable of removing a huge volume of water from the city via a combined roadway and flood mitigation tunnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_Tunnel

They took action....... here on the other hand, meeting is thursday

Three weeks ago The Nation reported that the new water management plan was going to cost 30% more than the one budgeted by Yingunlucky and Crew. But the opposition complained then that it was too expensive....I guess it is not the idea but who fiieds it...