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Thai PM orders water draining into sea
BANGKOK, October 8 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has ordered agencies concerned, including the military, to speed up discharging floodwater into the sea within 10 days.
Speaking to journalists on Saturday after inspecting a water pumping operation at a station in Bangkok's suburban Samut Prakan Province, Yingluck insisted that the water drainage is to be complete in due course to save Greater Bangkok from severe floods.
The Pheu Thai premier admitted, however, that the situation in the western side of Bangkok is more worrisome, as it is close to the country's largest Chao Phraya River; so, assessments of the updated situation is to be conducted on a regular basis, especially during huge water runoffs from the North, coupled with high sea tides, expected from October 13-18.
According to Royal Irrigation Department Director-General Chalit Damrongsak, more than 300 water pumps installed in the eastern and western sides of Bangkok can now discharge about three million cubic metres of water per second into the sea.
Meanwhile, worries over a possible flooding in the capital next week due to excess water released from several upstream dams were aired by senior officials from several government agencies who held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the updated flooding situation and ways to assist flood victims.
The senior officials, including Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog and Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, said that about 1,000 navy ships will help push out floodwater, and that the government's newly-set up flood relief centre at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport will initially use 300 navy and army boats to drive floodwater out to the sea. The operation is aimed at preventing Bangkok from being heavily inundated and reducing the severity of floods in other central Thai provinces, namely Singburi, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya and Chachoengsao. (TNA)
Speaking to journalists on Saturday after inspecting a water pumping operation at a station in Bangkok's suburban Samut Prakan Province, Yingluck insisted that the water drainage is to be complete in due course to save Greater Bangkok from severe floods.
The Pheu Thai premier admitted, however, that the situation in the western side of Bangkok is more worrisome, as it is close to the country's largest Chao Phraya River; so, assessments of the updated situation is to be conducted on a regular basis, especially during huge water runoffs from the North, coupled with high sea tides, expected from October 13-18.
According to Royal Irrigation Department Director-General Chalit Damrongsak, more than 300 water pumps installed in the eastern and western sides of Bangkok can now discharge about three million cubic metres of water per second into the sea.
Meanwhile, worries over a possible flooding in the capital next week due to excess water released from several upstream dams were aired by senior officials from several government agencies who held a meeting on Saturday to discuss the updated flooding situation and ways to assist flood victims.
The senior officials, including Justice Minister Police General Pracha Promnog and Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi, said that about 1,000 navy ships will help push out floodwater, and that the government's newly-set up flood relief centre at Bangkok's Don Muang Airport will initially use 300 navy and army boats to drive floodwater out to the sea. The operation is aimed at preventing Bangkok from being heavily inundated and reducing the severity of floods in other central Thai provinces, namely Singburi, Ang Thong, Ayutthaya and Chachoengsao. (TNA)
