News Forum - Pattaya mayor tackles water shortages with major projects

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Pattaya Mayor Poramet Ngampichet is taking bold steps to tackle the city’s water supply issues. With 12 major projects underway, residents can expect improved water distribution and transparency in the coming months. Mayor Poramet has ordered relevant agencies to gather detailed information on 12 ongoing water supply extension projects within Pattaya. The goal is to … …

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[23RD]

Ban Songkran water fights to save water. 

[Pinetree]

  On 4/9/2025 at 8:30 AM, 23RD said:

Ban Songkran water fights to save water. 

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Ban it anyway

[ChrisS]

  On 4/9/2025 at 10:28 AM, Pinetree said:

Ban it anyway

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Just ban foreigners from taking part in it!

[Skip]

Water management is not one of Thailand's fortes... just wait a month and you will have more water than you can deal with... never mind having a long term solution to the shortages and then the flooding.

[AussieBob]

Agree about Songkran. But the answer here is the same as it is in all countries - BUILD A BIGGER DAM/S !!

Plus I would add in Thailand, that they should create a National Dam Board who controls all the water storage and transportation and supply in all Thailand.  Too many Provinces (and Mayors) cannot think or see past their noses (in a trough usually). This issue needs a National approach to resolve it long term - take away Provincial controls - they are what is the problem.    

[Pinetree]

  On 4/10/2025 at 3:19 AM, AussieBob said:

Agree about Songkran. But the answer here is the same as it is in all countries - BUILD A BIGGER DAM/S !!

Plus I would add in Thailand, that they should create a National Dam Board who controls all the water storage and transportation and supply in all Thailand.  Too many Provinces (and Mayors) cannot think or see past their noses (in a trough usually). This issue needs a National approach to resolve it long term - take away Provincial controls - they are what is the problem.    

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Thailand does okay.  In The UK, a supposed First World Country, there is no National water system, just a set of localized commercial companies, doing their own thing, badly.  There can be a water shortage in the South, while there are floods 150 miles away. It's a disgrace.  In comparison, Thailand is years ahead in water management, and in a demanding tropical climate at that.  

[AussieBob]

  On 4/10/2025 at 4:50 AM, Pinetree said:

Thailand does okay.  In The UK, a supposed First World Country, there is no National water system, just a set of localized commercial companies, doing their own thing, badly.  There can be a water shortage in the South, while there are floods 150 miles away. It's a disgrace.  In comparison, Thailand is years ahead in water management, and in a demanding tropical climate at that.  

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I disagree - Thailand 'gets away' with it because of the huge amounts of rain that falls. But I agree about UK - as in most things there these days, they are completely useless and disorganised. The Great Empire is long gone - and UK is heading towards the economic backwardness of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France - but at least they can always get money from tourism - UK if fornicated.  Enoch Powell warned everyone that the country would slide into economic and social decay if they allowed massive immigration from 3rd world countries - but his 'argument' was turned into racism and 'old-school rubbish' by those that were politically against him - Thatcher & Co and the Media.  Sad but Inevitable - all Empires decay from within. 

[Pinetree]

  On 4/10/2025 at 4:50 AM, Pinetree said:

Thailand does okay.  In The UK, a supposed First World Country, there is no National water system, just a set of localized commercial companies, doing their own thing, badly.  There can be a water shortage in the South, while there are floods 150 miles away. It's a disgrace.  In comparison, Thailand is years ahead in water management, and in a demanding tropical climate at that.  

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This will shock you then.  Average rainfall in the UK in 2024 was, according to internet sources, 1,240mm.  In Thailand, for the same year, it was 1,200mm ! This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has lived in the UK for any length of time. 

[Pinetree]

  On 4/11/2025 at 4:41 AM, AussieBob said:

I disagree - Thailand 'gets away' with it because of the huge amounts of rain that falls. But I agree about UK - as in most things there these days, they are completely useless and disorganised. The Great Empire is long gone - and UK is heading towards the economic backwardness of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France - but at least they can always get money from tourism - UK if fornicated.  Enoch Powell warned everyone that the country would slide into economic and social decay if they allowed massive immigration from 3rd world countries - but his 'argument' was turned into racism and 'old-school rubbish' by those that were politically against him - Thatcher & Co and the Media.  Sad but Inevitable - all Empires decay from within. 

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This will shock you then.  Average rainfall in the UK in 2024 was, according to internet sources, 1,240mm.  In Thailand, for the same year, it was 1,200mm ! This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has lived in the UK for any length of time. 

[23RD]

  On 4/11/2025 at 5:05 AM, Pinetree said:

This will shock you then.  Average rainfall in the UK in 2024 was, according to internet sources, 1,240mm.  In Thailand, for the same year, it was 1,200mm ! This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has lived in the UK for any length of time. 

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If it's not raining it's not training 

If it's not snowing I'm not going 

One thing I'll never miss about Britain is the weather. 

[AussieBob]

  On 4/11/2025 at 5:06 AM, Pinetree said:

This will shock you then.  Average rainfall in the UK in 2024 was, according to internet sources, 1,240mm.  In Thailand, for the same year, it was 1,200mm ! This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has lived in the UK for any length of time. 

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Good point - but I was born there and did know that the rain in UK is frequent.  But it is easier to manage from a storage and transportation point of view.  However, in Thailand it buckets down big time in short periods and the lack of adequate storage and transportation rears it ugly head every year.  In UK the run-off is nowhere near how much it is in Thailand.  Queensland Australia is now getting the cycle of heavy rains - they come and go every 3-7 years and have done that going back a long time. They have not built a dam in Qld for 20 years (probably another 40-50 years since the one before), and that one is being rebuilt because it was built to cater for 'environmental issues' and is now failing apart.  The reason for dams is to hold the big rains for later use - something UK generally does not have to worry about, but which is a big issue in Thailand (and Australia). 

[AussieBob]

  On 4/11/2025 at 5:18 AM, 23RD said:

If it's not raining it's not training 

If it's not snowing I'm not going 

One thing I'll never miss about Britain is the weather. 

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But ........... the UK weather is like when riding a motorcycle in the cold rain for many hours.  When you get there and get inside, the feeling and taste of a good hot cuppa is unbelievably good 

[Pinetree]

  On 4/11/2025 at 6:44 AM, AussieBob said:

Good point - but I was born there and did know that the rain in UK is frequent.  But it is easier to manage from a storage and transportation point of view.  However, in Thailand it buckets down big time in short periods and the lack of adequate storage and transportation rears it ugly head every year.  In UK the run-off is nowhere near how much it is in Thailand.  Queensland Australia is now getting the cycle of heavy rains - they come and go every 3-7 years and have done that going back a long time. They have not built a dam in Qld for 20 years (probably another 40-50 years since the one before), and that one is being rebuilt because it was built to cater for 'environmental issues' and is now failing apart.  The reason for dams is to hold the big rains for later use - something UK generally does not have to worry about, but which is a big issue in Thailand (and Australia). 

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Okay, fair points.  I will just leave this subject with one more comment.  In my last 13 years of living in the UK, before I moved to Asia, I suffered a hose pipe, no watering my garden, ban every single year in the mid summer .  I have now been in Thailand for 8 years and not once has my water been limited, reduced, or cut off.  Water bills in the UK are running into the hundreds of pounds per month, mine here in Thailand rarely go above 10 pounds per month and I have a pool to maintain and top up. That says it all for me. 

[AussieBob]

  On 4/11/2025 at 8:27 AM, Pinetree said:

Okay, fair points.  I will just leave this subject with one more comment.  In my last 13 years of living in the UK, before I moved to Asia, I suffered a hose pipe, no watering my garden, ban every single year in the mid summer .  I have now been in Thailand for 8 years and not once has my water been limited, reduced, or cut off.  Water bills in the UK are running into the hundreds of pounds per month, mine here in Thailand rarely go above 10 pounds per month and I have a pool to maintain and top up. That says it all for me. 

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Fair point. Water restrictions in Australia have affected me, as have massive price increases.  It was funny when my wife complained that our water bill once reached 300 Baht - in Australia it was costing me an average of 2500 Baht per month. Thailand has the costs of most things done - and restrictions wont work because the system is not 'designed' like that, and the Thais will ignore it anyway.