rooster59 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 PWA puts up high sign board to warn people to use water sparingly BANGKOK: A huge sign board has been put up on the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway in Bangkok’s suburb by the Provincial Waterworks Authority to warn people to conserve tap water ahead of serious water shortage in the dry season. PWA chairman Chirachai Moonthongroi said that this was the first time in 37 years since the PWA started operational that it openly warned the public to use water sparingly and, at the same time, took precautionary steps to ensure sufficient tap water for consumption throughout the long hot season.He disclosed that the PWA had been spending three billion baht to resolve water shortage for short, medium and long-terms. These include dredging of artesian wells and securing new raw water sources, he said.Mr Chirachai said that the two-day water cut by the Thanyaburi waterworks unit in the middle of last year was a wakeup call for anticipated acute water shortage in the upcoming dry season.51 waterworks units in 31 provinces are at risk of running short of raw water to be processed into tap water as the water level in the four major dams which are the main sources of raw water for making tap water has dropped to critical point. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/pwa-puts-up-high-sign-board-to-warn-people-to-use-water-sparingly -- Thai PBS 2016-01-03 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadGeordie Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hose pipe ban, close car washes, err Songkran? Nah, not going to happen, those golf courses need water, those Mercs must sparkle and the plebians need their circus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoFarAndNear Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Will this be the begining of the end of my 150 baht water bill per month?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jucel Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hose pipe ban, close car washes, err Songkran? Nah, not going to happen, those golf courses need water, those Mercs must sparkle and the plebians need their circus. No freedom of speech & no elections but cancel Songkran and the people would be frothing like Cujo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reigntax Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 So the rain making department were not as successful as published. Who would have thought! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSJ Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Everyone relax, there will be plenty of bottled water if we run out of tap water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LannaGuy Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hmm I was just about to build a swimming pool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NongKhaiKid Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hose pipe ban, close car washes, err Songkran? Nah, not going to happen, those golf courses need water, those Mercs must sparkle and the plebians need their circus. Exactly , please conserve water so there's enough to be wasted at Songkran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneday Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 "...PWA had been spending three billion baht to resolve water shortage..." ...and I wonder just how much of that 3B Baht found it's way into actual solutions and not pockets of hungry officials. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Have they closed all those Turkish Bath establishments yet? If not, there is no serious shortage. Life goes on as usual... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOC Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 >> A huge sign board has been put up on the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway in Bangkok’s suburb by the Provincial Waterworks Authority to warn people to conserve tap water ahead of serious water shortage in the dry season<< Quote And now we hope that all 70 million Thais are passing the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway..................... What about using social media and/or TV ?? Oh silly me, I forgot, your brother is in the billboard business...................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Will have as much success as the stop the burning signs up north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krataiboy Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Maybe they should go easy on power cables, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Maybe they should go easy on power cables, too! Don't! That's what make Thailand, Thailand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 "dredging of artesian wells" Why would an artesian well need to be dredged????? I grew up about 5 miles from this artesian well, and for the life of me, I cannot imagine how one would go about dredging it. If water reaches the ground surface under the natural pressure of the aquifer, the well is called a flowing artesian well. An aquifer is a geologic layer of porous and permeable material such as sand and gravel, limestone, or sandstone, through which water flows and is stored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbie Dye Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Golf courses store their own water so lay off!! Thailand needs its golf tourists too! They spend money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOC Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 So the rain making department were not as successful as published. Who would have thought! Don't be so negative. Sustainable farming, an idea from the same department, is extremely successful..................... Or ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommers Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Yes a giant billboard will galvanise the nation. Oh wait, my neighbour in Chiang Mai is hosing down his driveway and the condo at Meechok is doing the same. Darn that billboard is not big enough. Maybe a few attitude readjustment sessions are needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginjag Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Will this be the begining of the end of my 150 baht water bill per month?! Lucky---mines 300 baht, but do water the garden and use an auto wash machine Just to add All this is a Joke---not the Song Khran festival in it'self but the way OVER THE TOP use of water in April---does not make sense ---- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waldroj Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 A good first-step by PWA, but a lot more needs to be done. Still no campaign by the junta to encourage home owners and tourist accommodation establishments to install water-saving devices. Still no information leaflets issued to arriving tourists altering them of the water problems (and seeking their help to conserve water). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renrut Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Hose pipe ban, close car washes, err Songkran? Nah, not going to happen, those golf courses need water, those Mercs must sparkle and the plebians need their circus. Is there a difference between those plebians [sic] that you refer to and those who haughtily consider themselves not to be plebeians on this forum who don't seem to know that Songkran is in April, a time of year that on average sees about 6 times the rainfall of this month? Where did the report say that there car wash and hose pipe bans? I hope that you don't use water for anything other than the absolute necessities as you feel so strong about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 PWA puts up high sign board to warn people to use water sparingly. People? The poor, the farmers, the nobodies I suppose out in the countryside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacherd Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Perhaps lawfully preventing retailers from hosing down the outside of their shops every day might help. Each day where I live, major hose down the land in front of their shopping centre pouring hundreds of gallons down the drain on n the space of an hour or so, instead if putting a little effort into cleaning. I recently complained about a government building because when they watered the plants, the hose was so full of holes the pavement and road got soaked daily. Surprisingly a week later they had a new hose. Moan over, but there are many easy low cost solutions to reducing water usage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pib Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Time for a bigger water storage tank because I think this coming year water cutoffs to more major residential areas will occur as compared to last year. I live in Bangkok and didn't experience any water cutoff last year, but there were days where the soi water main pressure was greatly reduced in pressure...pressure so low it was not enough to climb up a 2 meter high pipe to the top of my water storage tank to fill it...then water storage tank feeds my house water pump. My current 850L tank is large enough to provide about a 1.5 days of household normal water usage when the soi water main is not providing water to refill the tank for whatever reasons like a broke water main somewhere, water shortage, etc. I've got enough room to replace it with a 1600L tank for sure or just maybe a 2000L tank that would give me 3 to 4 days of water usage....I just may do that and try to sell the old tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Time for a bigger water storage tank because I think this coming year water cutoffs to more major residential areas will occur as compared to last year. I live in Bangkok and didn't experience any water cutoff last year, but there were days where the soi water main pressure was greatly reduced in pressure...pressure so low it was not enough to climb up a 2 meter high pipe to the top of my water storage tank to fill it...then water storage tank feeds my house water pump. My current 850L tank is large enough to provide about a 1.5 days of household normal water usage when the soi water main is not providing water to refill the tank for whatever reasons like a broke water main somewhere, water shortage, etc. I've got enough room to replace it with a 1600L tank for sure or just maybe a 2000L tank that would give me 3 to 4 days of water usage....I just may do that and try to sell the old tank. You will need a huge tank to store 2 month's consumption... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chainarong Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 One could I suppose point the finger at successive governments who didn't plan for the future or the past 2 decades of dereliction of duty , however the pony has bolted and now the job ahead is to rectify this massive problem , however the fast track solution needs to be replaced with a planned solution.............................. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiChai Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Could always ban water at songkran; by then i suspect water will be in very short supply. We have a 550 lt tank and we had some family come and stay and ran out of water, because of poor supply in the village. Think i need to add another tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebell Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Just to re-assure you, East Water have finally mended two leaks which were bubbling thousands of litres down the drains. It took them just two months of photos/phone calls and threats to video-share on social media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAG Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Time for a bigger water storage tank because I think this coming year water cutoffs to more major residential areas will occur as compared to last year. I live in Bangkok and didn't experience any water cutoff last year, but there were days where the soi water main pressure was greatly reduced in pressure...pressure so low it was not enough to climb up a 2 meter high pipe to the top of my water storage tank to fill it...then water storage tank feeds my house water pump. My current 850L tank is large enough to provide about a 1.5 days of household normal water usage when the soi water main is not providing water to refill the tank for whatever reasons like a broke water main somewhere, water shortage, etc. I've got enough room to replace it with a 1600L tank for sure or just maybe a 2000L tank that would give me 3 to 4 days of water usage....I just may do that and try to sell the old tank. You will need a huge tank to store 2 month's consumption...Or a swimming pool! Edited January 4, 2016 by JAG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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