Experts balk at General Surasak’s plan for a single Water Development Department

Pratch Rujivanarom
The Nation

 

 

BANGKOK:-- EXPERTS have mounted a wave of opposition against a plan to establish a single Water Development Department as they said it will |overlap with existing agencies and will not improve the country’s water management.

 

Last Friday, General Surasak Karnjanarat, Natural Resources and Environment Minister, revealed that he intended to disband the Water Resources Department and Groundwater Resources Department and blend them into new single department to improve the national water management. 

Yesterday, the Engineer Institute of Thailand (EIT) and Irrigation Engineering Alumni Association hosted a seminar at the Irrigation College to discuss the proposal.

 

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Quite right, block this as there should be many more agencies so that there's plenty jobs for family, cronies and incompetent people and if possible their family members. The trough's big enough and everyone talking at cross purposes means decisions can't be made and no one can be blamed for screw ups.

 

Anyway isn't this already a sort of standard practice as on a couple of occasions recently 4 or 5 committees have been set up to consider the same issue. 

 

 

And the the first head of this new agency will be  - a retired General whose name starts with "S"?

."........it will |overlap with existing agencies and will not improve the country’s water management. "

A magnificent backdrop where the academics in suits can appear to be arguing about doing something while the peasants once again slosh around in knee deep and more-flood waters. Wonderful 

Not a good idea ,they won't be able to pass blame on to a different department 

 

blame will have to be kept in house ,someone will lose face

will cut down on state money wastage

not a good idea

fewer jobs for the boys

and less handouts

Should improve cash flow up to the headwaters, however

Military men just don't make good government. Surasak's centralized plan makes good illustration. Command and control are the principles that they are familiar. Top down and punishment are how they operate. Military has no business governing the country. 

Let me guess, the "experts" work in the other department and would be transferred into inactive positions. Sounds like a brilliant idea to me.Then start replacing the remaining with some high tech gadgetry from China, can't get any worse.

Blending, nice word, more blending to come.

It's not hard to see why Thailand has big problems when we are told that its "experts" are against a plan to disband the Water Resources and Groundwater Resources Departments and blend them into new single entity. Especially when one of their arguments is that this new department will overlap with "existing agencies" (that, presumably are the ones to be disbanded).

 

These "experts" also argue that it will not improve the country’s water management. So long as it does not make the situation worse, (and they don't blend sewage with drinking water) then how can there be a problem? 

 

On October 8, 2016 at 9:13 AM, whatproblem said:

Not a good idea ,they won't be able to pass blame on to a different department 

 

blame will have to be kept in house ,someone will lose face

True but the new administers can just say I am only in charge of the administration end of this, he is the expert and thats why I will fire him now.