News Forum - Garbage in canals is making the flooding worse in Bangkok

[Thaiger]

With heavy rainfall creating flooding around Thailand, officials say its not just the massive water pelting down that’s to blame in the Bangkok floods. Another culprit plays a significant role in the flooding: dumped garbage. While the capital city needs improvements to the drainage systems, an epidemic of junk bottlenecking the water flow is also to blame. The Chao Phraya River, running through Bangkok has become inundated with trash dumped by people. Old mattresses and furniture along with other common household items no longer wanted have been ditched in Bangkok canals. They can block the flow of water into the […]

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[Prosaap]

I sure its only the tourist who do that the nice clean thai people will never do that 

[Ramanathan.P]

Only awareness and support from those in the city can bring a big change. The awareness to be via drastic measurements. One of the way is to pump back the canal water, clean & purify it and send it back to the city dwellers for domestic use. That way those city dwellers can feel the mess that they are creating for themselves. 

[DoUKnowWhoIAm]

4 hours ago, Thaiger said:

Another culprit plays a significant role in the flooding: dumped garbage

Chock horror! Garbage in Bangkok canals????

[Janneman]

The bright side, if they dump enough garbage in the canals they will vanish. Creating new land ready to build more houses. They might get more problems when it rains, but who cares?