LIVING GREEN
Recurring nightmare
Floods cast a long shadow on choice of site for new parliament
Winter has finally gone _ for a while, maybe. It is supposed to be arid in the country this time of year. People are worrying if the draught would be more drastic in times of climate change. Typically, January is the period when we have to start stocking up water in our dams for irrigation as the Thai economy depends greatly on agriculture.
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However, heavy rains once in a while get the people worrying about the flooding, which could return in September this year. Worse still, water levels in the dams are unusually high, with some of them almost 90% full, which is three times more than regular stock in February. Why so? Government officials say that we still have a lot of water left in the dams from last year. And it is not easy to release it out soon enough before May when the rainy season officially sets in. It looks as if another devastating flood might come back to haunt us again. Be prepared!
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- Writer: Asst Prof Dr Atch Sreshthaputra
