Flooding in Thailand and Asia - more misery on the way as monsoon season hits the region

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

BANGKOK: -- As the monsoon season begins to wreak havoc in communities across Asia including Thailand, Thai Rath ran a feature about one of the biggest problems facing this part of the world.

 

They based their report on a CNN story that pointed to an increasingly grim picture especially for communities at high risk in Asia.

 

Floods, landslides, typhoons, cyclones and depressions have always plagued communities from India to China, Afghanistan to Japan and the problem of heavy rains is always paramount in Thailand as much as anywhere else.

 

Thai Rath said that 137 million people living in India, China and Bangladesh were living in high risk areas in coastal deltas or other places.

 

CNN reported that 2.2 million Asian people had been killed by floods and related disasters in the last 67 years alone. Apart from the loss of life the economic impact of rains and flooding is immense, they said.

 

But despite the wealth of many people in the region increasing the situation is only set to get worse.

 

CNN quoted an influential environmentalist from Australia who expects 20% more rain in the entire region over the next 30 years due to climate change.

 

Already the Asia wide average rainfall is a meter of rain a year.

 

The feature came as much of the north east was under water with local media reporting thousands affected in Thailand from the impact of a tropical depression in the area.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

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here is an exerpt from that CNN story:

"Aggravating flooding through poor drainage and short-sighted planning is the sprawling, rapid urban growth across South Asia, built to accommodate the millions of rural residents moving to cities.

"You still have to have proper draining. It was a green field and now it's an urban area. Quite often, if you don't do that, (because) you've concreted everything the flood run-off is so much higher and the deaths are much worse," Oxford University visiting fellow and WWF advisor Paul Sayers told CNN."

 

sound like bangkok ?

51 minutes ago, YetAnother said:

here is an exerpt from that CNN story:

"Aggravating flooding through poor drainage and short-sighted planning is the sprawling, rapid urban growth across South Asia, built to accommodate the millions of rural residents moving to cities.

"You still have to have proper draining. It was a green field and now it's an urban area. Quite often, if you don't do that, (because) you've concreted everything the flood run-off is so much higher and the deaths are much worse," Oxford University visiting fellow and WWF advisor Paul Sayers told CNN."

 

sound like bangkok ?

Ya but you do not understand Thai ways.

1 hour ago, YetAnother said:

here is an exerpt from that CNN story:

"Aggravating flooding through poor drainage and short-sighted planning is the sprawling, rapid urban growth across South Asia, built to accommodate the millions of rural residents moving to cities.

"You still have to have proper draining. It was a green field and now it's an urban area. Quite often, if you don't do that, (because) you've concreted everything the flood run-off is so much higher and the deaths are much worse," Oxford University visiting fellow and WWF advisor Paul Sayers told CNN."

 

sound like bangkok ?

Urbanisation is likely to have much short term impact than any climate change. Much of central Thailand has been developed....the rice fields act as natural reservoirs, but a lot have been lost already. 

And around and around it goes, yawn. Silly humans and their pedantic problems.

Until Bangkok is 3 metres underwater not much is going to happen

Until Bangkok is 3 metres underwater not much is going to happen

Yep.... I have a feeling this year is gonna be a disaster with rainy season September October November...


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2 minutes ago, MaxLee said:

 

Yep.... I have a feeling this year is gonna be a disaster with rainy season September October November...


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My family lives in Ayutthaya and we bought a small boat in 2011 so we could get to the town and get supplies etc. Boat has been under house since, looks like it's going to be coming out again soon

All comes down to overpopulation and bad/ nonexistent planning leading to rural people moving to urban areas, and blocking natural drainage, cutting down trees etc.

Building on natural floodplains was never a good idea either.

 

I don't hold any hope that things will get better either, due to human greed and ignorance.

Prime example in my village, last 3 years new houses like mushrooms used to have good drainage everywhere never flooded. Then come the builders and fill every damn drain line and cover it over, now flooding when somebody pees too much.

Death due to flooding is not a new issue and not that strange.  The issue in Pakistan and India is not just water overflowing rivers. it is the fact that when rivers get dry the people set up  their villages and houses in the dry river bed.

 

I do agree that there is an issue with the building to fast.  They fill in rice fields and build houses in 5 months not sure how much it is going to cost when they  settle 

13 hours ago, Jeremy50 said:

And around and around it goes, yawn. Silly humans and their pedantic problems.

Don't like.