Drought impact less severe than last year

[MaxLee]

Our troubles will be washed away sooner enough, wanna bet?

[billd766]

Despite the unusually long dry season, the impact of the drought on the country has been less serious than that of last year, owing to the government's preparations and assistance measures for drought-stricken areas. Water management of the four main reservoirs along the Chao Phraya River also proved efficient.

Odd that they can make statements like this, provide no evidence, and just expect media outlets to repeat it and people to accept it at face value.

Actually the government did a fair job by digging wells, drilling boreholes, digging extra water storage ponds plus cleaning and dredging a lot of the klongs and the canals. I have seen the evidence with my own eyes as many of us who live in the hardest hit rural areas have seen.

They have done and achieved more than any other government has done in the last 20 years, at least in the conservation and use of water, and they deserve praise for that.

I have no idea where you live so I cannot comment on your area but I can and do give praise for anything that helps the rural people, no matter WHICH government is in power in the area where I live.

About 10 years ago the King paid for fishponds to be dug in the rural areas to serve a dual purpose. 1 to grow fish to help the local people eat and also to sell fish on the markets and make some money on the side. 2 was to also use the fishponds for water storage in times of drought. I believe that it was implemented across all the regions of Thailand and not just for the regions that voted for a particular party in power at the time.

It was NOT any government that started that plan, although any government could have done it at any time.

"They have done and achieved more than any other government has done in the last 20 years, at least in the conservation and use of water, and they deserve praise for that."

Why? it's their job. That's what governments (legal and illegal) are paid to do. If they can't take a joke they shouldn't have joined, but they certainly don't deserve compliments for doing exactly what they're paid to do.

W

I don't remember you praising previous governments for doing nothing but talking and wasting money which is what they were paid not to do.

[aneliane]

This cannot be further from the truth.

75% of real organic fruits and veg have simply disappeared from markets.

What is sold is now 99% Monsato crap.

Not everyone wants to eat glyphosate and get tumors.