Rain forces end to eastern drainage test

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Rain forces end to eastern drainage test

Published: 8 Sep 2012 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

The government's water drainage test scheduled for eastern Bangkok yesterday was called off after several days of continuous heavy rain in the capital and nearby provinces.

Royol Chitradon, chairman of the subcommittee that monitors and analyses water management for the Water and Flood Management Commission (WFMC), said his committee, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation had jointly decided to cancel the drill.

Some low-lying areas of Bangkok and neighbouring provinces, such as Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani, had been hit by flash floods caused by the heavy rains, Mr Royol said.

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banphai
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Discussion 24 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.5324
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Disc 21#. The hair-dryer scheme certainly has merit, but I am still awaiting a response to the proposal I made last year which involved the use of recycled car-jacks to tilt the canals and rivers more steeply towards the sea.
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Discussion 23 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.1923
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The photo shows just how bad things have got.

I assumed the 'water pushing machine' would at least go from bank to bank. But no. With the sides open like this, no forward motion is possible.
Another fail from Peua Thai (please, Red Fanboys, tell me something fun like, 'At least they're trying.' I love seeing how desperate you have become.)
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Discussion 22 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.0822
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A water pushing machine,A pump, works in an enclosed space,A pipe, not in an open canal. Fortunately for the Thai experts, Government, there audience,voting public,are very uneducated and so will get away with the sham. You can fool some of the people all the time but not all people.Poetic licence I know it is not absolutely correct but it fits better to this stupidity.
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Discussion 21 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.0721
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As any layman knows a propeller is designed to propel a vessel forwards or backwards and the resultant wash from the propeller blades form a vortex which moves in a circular motion and actually slows the water flow rather than accelerate it. Also the design of the ‘pushing machines’ shows that the hull is also restricting water flow.
A few hundred girls with hair blower/driers would be a much more cost effective measure.
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Discussion 20 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.0120
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Don't buy these Navy guys any submarine, or it is just a national tragedy waiting to happen! If they can't figure out that their supposedly "water flow-accelerating device" is a complete waste of time (and money), having them operating a submarine is lost cause!
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Discussion 19 : 08 Sep 2012 at 14.0119
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If this is the best they can come up with better start moving our furniture to the second floor next month.
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Discussion 18 : 08 Sep 2012 at 13.4918
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Khun Dao #15, that won't work neither. What we need is big pump, which is a big spinning propeller in an enclosed housing, not a bunch of boats' propellers splashing water all over the place!
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Discussion 17 : 08 Sep 2012 at 13.2617
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That "water flow accelerating devices" look really fishy to me. Stirring water in a fish farm is one thing, but to do it as a mean of increasing the flow of water is a complete insult to intelligence!
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Discussion 16 : 08 Sep 2012 at 12.4816
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If the gov't were serious about saving money and energy, they could power their water pushing machines with one of my perpetual motion machines. I also have a cold fusion version.
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Discussion 15 : 08 Sep 2012 at 12.1915
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Those water pushing machines would only work if they were installed every 50 meters .
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