DGR groundwater drilling nears completion

BANGKOK, 5 August 2015 (NNT) – The Department of Groundwater Resources (DGR) has completed 99% of its groundwater wells, providing more than 350,000 cubic meters of water per day to drought-hit areas.

DGR Deputy Director-General Aranya Fuangswasdi has revealed that the department has successfully drilled 506 out of 511 planned groundwater wells, or 99.02%. The DGR is now in the process of drilling 10 more.

A total of 221 new wells have been outfitted with water pumps capable of drawing 217,913 cubic meters of groundwater daily. Meanwhile, 225 old wells that fell into disrepair have received maintenance and the installation of water pumps, providing 33,750 cubic meters of groundwater per day.

This brings the number of renovated wells to 731 out of 891 in total, which supply a combined 251,663 cubic meters of water per day.

This operation is aimed at helping farmers in drought-hit areas across 15 provinces in the lower North and Chao Phraya River Basin. An estimated 4,000 households tending to 150,000 rai of farmland would receive 350,000 cubic meters of water daily.


-- NNT 2015-08-05

Drilled 506 out of a planned 511, so now drilling 10 more? Yeah... that makes sense to me.

As far as i know they did nothing in the Northeast. Which is typical the NE is always last to get anything from the government.

Drilled 506 out of a planned 511, so now drilling 10 more? Yeah... that makes sense to me.

How about 5 were non starters for some reason but they used the remainder of that budget to do 10 more. Possible and laudable. The rest of the item sounds really impressive performance. Just 5 months too late but that is the chiefs' fault. the Indians pulled finger & got job done.

As far as i know they did nothing in the Northeast. Which is typical the NE is always last to get anything from the government.

But the NE always has droughts. They should all have wells by now. Enough farangs live up there for heavens sake and they are all rich TVF posters, arn't they? Down there in that area (where they dug all those wells, droughts are not common there?

I am glad something has been done about the drought conditions I stated on numerous occasions about the need for groundwater wells and boreholes so I am glad its been done.