Hot weather hits 35 provinces

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Published: 23 Feb 2013 at 11.43
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A total of 35 provinces have been hit by drought, effecting people in 25,014 villages, Chatchai Promlert, director general of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, said on Saturday.

Speaking on “Yingluck Government Meets the People on NBT, Mr Chatchai said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra had ordered related state agencies to prepare for the drought before the situation occurs.

The government has prepared for the situation since October 2012, introducing “2P”-prevention and preparation-strategy under the “single command” management system, he said.

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patchar
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Discussion 5 : 23 Feb 2013 at 17.275
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What this present government doing is trying to create a problem that does not exist and making a solution to none. The weather now is no different from the weather in the proevious years yet everything went well. It's obviously no rain on these months as it's dry season..This is how Thai weather goesn on and it's been the same for the past years..
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Discussion 4 : 23 Feb 2013 at 16.094
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The headline is hot weather. The story is drought.
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Discussion 3 : 23 Feb 2013 at 14.053
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Since 1985 Thai people have destroyed more than 50% of their woods. Chatchai Promlert, director general of the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department, should know, that only a program of massive reforrestation will solve the problem on the long run. That is what I call "desaster prevention". But Thai politics permit not more than coping with scarcity, or even less.
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Discussion 2 : 23 Feb 2013 at 12.062
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“State agencies had refilled water in 49,000 public water tanks nationwide”.

Presumably this is in preparation for Songkran water festival so that people have enough water to throw around.
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Discussion 1 : 23 Feb 2013 at 12.031
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Planting trees helps retain ground water instead of letting the ground dry out .
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