Disasters

Levees were being raised higher at a sluice gate under construction in Bang Bo district on Friday after a high tide overflowed, flash flooding about 40 homes, on Thursday night.Moo 5 village of tambon Khlong Dan was flooded without warning about 7.30pm. Within 10 minutes ...

The Prime Minister has urged related agencies to find ways to mitigate flooding in Bangkok, and help alleviate public inconvenience.Keep watching ...

Academic urges BMA to make it mandatory for big condo, office building projects to build underground water banks. Even with 20 giant drainage tunnels, Bangkok will never be safe from floods, predicts a respected university lecturer.Thanawat Jarupongsakul, who teaches at Chulalongkorn University’s Department of Geology, ...

The giant drainage tunnel in Bang Sue failed to help as Bangkokians found themselves stranded in traffic for hours or wading through flooded roads last Friday.This failure has raised questions about the tunnel’s efficiency as well as the city administration’s much-touted claim that such tunnels ...

The Hydro – Informatics Institute has reported that the water situation this year closely resembles that of 2007 with adequate supplies for daily use but a risk of insufficient for the agricultural sector. Meanwhile, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) has declared seven ...

Thailand suffers calamities at both ends of the annual weather spectrum – both drought and flood. But as the demands on agriculture grow, with a growing population and the rise of tourists and development, the effects of these two extremes are becoming more apparent.Keep reading ...

Nearly half Nakhon Ratchasima’s 32 districts have been declared drought-hit areas, with the province as a whole and many other parts of the country facing the prospect of acute water shortages, authorities say.Keep reading ...

Community and conservation groups in Myanmar have branded a planned highway linking a port project to Thailand an “ecological and social disaster”, saying it would uproot indigenous people from their homes and farms.Critics said an environmental and social impact assessment for the road project, approved ...

A major dam in central Thailand’s Phetchaburi province is expected to overflow at Wednesday (Aug 22) noon, triggering a fresh flood, officials said on Tuesday (Aug 21).The Kaeng Krachan dam is currently holding 777 million cubic metres of water or 109 percent of its full ...

Provinces across the northeast have begun 24 hour monitoring of the Mekong River, which is expected to rise significantly both in Lao PDR and Thailand this week, with Bueng Kan already hit by an initial overflow. Water in the Mekong River has begun to creep ...