Take the instance of water management which is on all our minds at the moment. We have a comprehensive study of 25 river basins as the basis for a master plan for water resources management, which would resolve all our water woes, from drought to floods. But past governments have let this slide during annual budget allocations, shoved aside for other items high on the political agenda.
Bangkok Post : Floods breach Ayutthaya factories - 1 views
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AYUTTHAYA: A makeshift embankment at a bridge leading into a major industrial estate collapsed yesterday, allowing floodwaters to surge in, causing damages that could run up to 18 billion baht. OPPORTUNITY IN CRISIS: A man casts his fishing net near the reclining Buddha image at Wat Loke Yasutha temple in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district of Ayutthaya province yesterday.
Condoms supplied to flood victims | Thai Travel News - 2 views
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Other than relief packages, condoms have also been supplied to Thailand's flood victims.
BANGKOK FLOOD UPDATE: Thai capital safe from floods… For this week. | Thai Tr... - 0 views
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It seems like Bangkok is safe for another week! Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra announced that the city should be spared from floods for at least this week. It is predicated that Bangkok will be flooded on either October 15th or 16th.
Mobile phone: Weapon against global poverty - CNN.com - 0 views
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(CNN) -- When renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs visited rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005, he saw impoverished communities with poor drinking water, feast-and-famine crop cycles and rampant malaria infections. What he didn't see was mobile phones.
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Bangkok Post : Needed: political will to keep water in check - 0 views
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It is therefore necessary that we rethink and redesign our urban zoning arrangements.
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The Royal Department of Irrigation has admitted that the amount of rainfall this year has not been much more than in 1995 or 2006, but the dykes and smaller community dams built to prevent flooding in particular areas have caused flooding in other areas. So, uncoordinated action undertaken to push away a problem has ended up hurting everyone. Thus, centrally coordinated planning is required.
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Bangkok Floods in 1942 - YouTube - 0 views
Thai Floods Reach 'Crisis,' Threaten Bangkok, Yingluck Says - 0 views
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Thailand's worst floods in more than half a century have reached a "crisis level" and threaten to swamp the capital, Bangkok, as early as next week, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said. 30 Billion baht of damage has been done
Bangkok's Lat Krabang flooded in - 1 views
Oct 16-18 critical for capital - 1 views
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Agriculture Minister Theera Wongsamut said that next Thursday or Friday, water would be flowing down the Chao Phraya River in Nakhon Sawan at a rate of between 4,500 and 5,500 cubic metres per second. The sheer scale of the water-flow rate means that more flooding was likely for those living along the river, he said.
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"Flooding will spread further in riverside provinces, starting with Nakhon Sawan and followed by Chai Nat," Theera said. To date, flooding has hit 28 provinces and affected more than 2.6 million people. The disaster has killed 244 people and left three missing. It is estimated that floods have already ravaged 7.5 million rai of farmland. As many as 182 roads are impassable due to deep floodwater levels.
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Floods have left 1,215 factories submerged, affecting more than 41,000 workers. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday described the situation as "critical" and said she was quite worried about the upcoming storms. Royal Irrigation Department director-general Chalit Damrongsak, said the water volume is much larger than during last year's flooding.
Thailand floods death toll rises to 237 - 1 views
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