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Sanan to push for Kaeng Sua Ten dam

Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart on Friday insisted he will again push for cabinet approval for the construction of the long-delayed Kaeng Sua Ten dam in Phrae province.

Maj-Gen Sanan said this in the House meeting in replying to a question by Samphan Tangbenjapol, a Democrat Party MP for Sukhothai, about the management of water resources in the Yom River basin which encompasses Phrae, Sukhothai, Phitsanulok, Phichit and Nakhon Sawan provinces which have suffered from severe drought and flooding.

The question was directed to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, who assigned Maj-Gen Sanan to reply on his behalf.

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  • DeepInTheForest

    Discussion 1 : 11/09/2010 at 06:26 AM1

    Dams almost never achieve their avowed goals with regards to flood prevention, the reason being that electrical generation requires that the dam be kept pretty full. Since electrical generation is a big selling point of the dams, the two aims cannot be reconciled. Example: Three Gorges in China, and the disastrous flooding downstream this year.

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