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ONWR seeks measures for dry season
A national water management panel wants the Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives Ministry to draw up measures to accommodate the annual rice crop without affecting the water disbursement plan for the 2019-2020 dry season.Somkiat Prajamwong, chief of the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR), said the ...
Bangkok Post Reporter
Cabinet approves new water management guidelines
The cabinet has approved a package of draft ministerial regulations necessary for enhancing cooperation in water resource management and better handling of flood and drought crises, according to the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR).Somkiat Prajamwong, the ONWR’s secretary-general, said several of the 11 draft ...
Mongkol Bangprapa
ONWR completes framework on tackling water crises
Samroeng Sangphuwong, deputy secretary-general at the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR), said his agency completed the upgrading of the framework of the National Water Management structure on Tuesday (September 24). He was speaking after meeting with Lt-General Kraiboon Suadsong, chief of the Police Strategy ...
The Nation Reporter
Prayut extols water management plan
The government’s “active investment” on water management has been successful in limiting drought damage to local communities and saving people from flooding in the rainy season, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha says. Speaking at a seminar called “Knowledge Creation, Communication and Water Management in Rainy Season”, organised ...
Apinya Wipatayotin
Water resources in EEC area being studied
Water usage for all activities in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) provinces will be studied, as the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) is drafting a water management plan. The plan aims to deal with increasing water demand in the EEC.Keep reading ...
Pratch Rujivanarom
PM presides at meeting on water resources management at Govt House
The Prime Minister is today (June 4) presiding over a meeting on water resources management at Government House from 9.00 am to 10.15 am. The meeting will go over the government’s achievements in water management, which include related plans in the national strategy, the establishment of ...
Nuppol Suvansombut
ONWR seeks 150 billion baht fund for water projects
The Office of the National Water Resources (ONWR) is seeking a 150-billion-baht fund for 13 major water management projects. Speaking after a meeting of the government’s sub-committee on water resource management strategies chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Chatchai Sarikulya, ONWR Secretary General Somkiat Prajamwong said the ...
Supawadee Wangsri
