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Dam water to help farmers with second rice crop
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 12/10/2023
» The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives plans to release stored water from dams to help farmers with their second rice crop plantation due to higher than expected amounts of rainfall this year.
Govt must brace for El Niño
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 16/06/2023
» Experts are warning Thailand to brace for unusually low average rainfall that may lead to drought as a result of the El Niño weather pattern.
Predicted rain prompts dam releases
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 07/09/2022
» Dams are releasing water as a precautionary move prior to the arrival of large inflows of water from this week's heavy rains, the Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) has said.
Beating back the floods
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/10/2021
» The influence of the Dianmu storm hitting the country has heightened fears that the mega-flooding that struck the Chao Phraya River basin 10 years ago will repeat itself. That disaster caused damage of over 100 billion baht.
B1.5bn to unclog Bueng Boraphet
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 06/08/2020
» Clearing the enormous sedimentation of Bueng Boraphet -- the country's largest freshwater lake in Nakhon Sawan province -- is an urgent issue that authorities are tackling to combat the province's problem of rainwater storage and water scarcity.
'Missing water' in dams spark fears of a drought next year
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 03/08/2020
» The government is facing a challenge of adding more water in 38 major dams across the country during the one-and-half month golden period of rainfall after realising that less water has flowed into the dams than expected.
Low water levels to last until 2020
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 31/08/2019
» The country is likely to face severe water shortages until next year after Tropical Storm Podul failed to deposit enough rainwater to replenish major dams in the central and northern regions, a water management official says.
Xayaburi Dam in clear, says operator
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 28/07/2019
» The unseasonal drought currently affecting the lower Mekong Region has alerted both the public and the authorities to the activities of a series of dams further upstream on the international river.
107 reservoirs brace for more monsoon rain
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 11/08/2018
» As many as 107 reservoirs are approaching maximum holding capacity as technicians race against time to drain them before further monsoons hit the country later this month.
11 dams reaching their storage limit
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/08/2018
» Eleven major dams are reaching the limit of their storage capacities, which is putting them at risk of flooding, according to the Royal Irrigation Department (RID).