'Water motorway' to keep floods away from capital | Bangkok Post: opinion

BANGKOK FLOOD CRISIS

As Thailand's flood crisis deepens with the government telling Bangkok's residents to leave the capital if possible, a team of water management experts have proposed that the government build new "water motorway" to reduce the damage of flooding in Bangkok in the long run.

If a proposed waterway is built along the planned third outer ring road in eastern Bangkok, scenes like this flooded road in front of Don Mueang Airport would become a distant memory.

"By nature this entire area [Bangkok] is a floodway, so we should take the opportunity and manage it rightly," said Chawalit Chantararat, managing director of Team Group's water resources business unit, pointing a finger at the red flood-prone zone on a map of Bangkok.