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News, Published on 14/02/2013
» Last Saturday Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, who is chairman of the government's Water Management and Flood Prevention Commission, proposed to implement the Mae Wong Dam and resurrect the Kaeng Sua Ten Dam as part of the huge flood-prevention package now being formulated. Neither of these dams, if implemented, would offer enough flood prevention to offset the damage caused to forests and wildlife.
Published on 11/04/2012
» The Disaster Warning Centre issued an order for the people in the six provinces on the western coast of Thaland to evacuate to safe areas after an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.6 on the Richter scale rocked the western coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 11/01/2012
» Some experts say Thai dams are too full. Irrigation officials say yes, but they won’t be by the end of the dry season.
Jon Fernquest, Published on 03/11/2011
» With droughts & dams half-full until May this year, storms then filled dams & water was released slowly to avoid even greater flooding.
Jon Fernquest, Published on 31/03/2011
» Small reservoirs with about two million cubic meters of water could inundate some areas less than 20 minutes after an earthquake.