Phanwin Yokying and Arunee Promkhambut With roughly 63 percent of the country’s agricultural area allocated for rice farming, rice has long been a key food staple and export crop for Thailand. As...
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RID Implements Plan to Secure Water Reserves
BANGKOK (NNT) - The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) is taking action to safeguard the nation’s water reserves by implementing a comprehensive plan. The initiative comes amid forecasts of an...
Deputy PM endorses massive plan to combat flooding and drought
BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has endorsed a government plan to address flooding and drought issues across the country. The massive plan for water resource management...
Water Management Projects to Mitigate Flood and Drought Damage
BANGKOK (NNT) - Authorities are expediting dozens of projects involving wastewater management and reservoir rehabilitation to improve water storage capacity and limit costs associated with flood and...
Disaster Management Reference Handbook - Thailand (January 2022)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Thailand is exposed to flooding, landslides, drought, earthquakes, tsunamis, heat waves, forest fires, and epidemics. Thailand is also exposed to technological hazards such as...
Thailand: Mobile Medical Units Set Up to Help Flood Victims
BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Public Health Ministry has dispatched officials to set up mobile medical units for flood victims in Chanthaburi, Trat and Prachin Buri provinces where hospitals were...
Government rapidly addressing water issues in lower Northeast
BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen. Prawit Wongsuwon has visited Khon Kaen to inspect the flood situation, during which he called for systemic management of water for the purpose of mitigating...
Climate Risk Country Profile - Thailand
KEY MESSAGES • Observations show temperature increases across Thailand since the mid-20th century and an increase in annual precipitation. Most of this increase occurs during the wet season. • By the...
Strengthening the capacity of ASEAN Member States to design and implement risk-informed and shock responsive social protection systems for resilience - Thailand Case Study
Executive Summary Introduction The complementarity of social protection and disaster risk management (DRM) is increasingly acknowledged by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), as...
Government speeds up plans to prevent saltwater intrusion
BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered state agencies to speed up developing groundwater resources and water gates to prevent saltwater intrusion amid predictions of...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 09/03/2021, covering the week from 02 March 2021 to 08 March 2021
Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 2-8 March 2021. The...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 02/03/2021, covering the week from 23 February 2021 to 01 March 2021
Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 23 February1 March...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 23/02/2021, covering the week from 16 February 2021 to 22 February 2021
Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 16-22 February...
ONWR urges faster drought action in northeastern region
BANGKOK (NNT) - The Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) is now in the process of mitigating the drought in the northeastern region, with projects in place to improve water reservoir efficiency,...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 16/02/2021, covering the week from 09 February 2021 to 15 February 2021
Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 9-15 February 2021. ...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 09/02/2021, covering the week from 02 February 2021 to 08 February 2021
1 Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 2-8 February...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 02/02/2021, covering the week from 26 January 2021 to 1 Frebuary 2021
1 Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for the period from 26 January1...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 19/01/2021, covering the week from 12 January 2021 to 18 January 2021
Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for 12 to 18 January 2021. The trend...
ONWR pushes drought mitigation plan
BANGKOK (NNT) - ONWR chair DPM Gen Prawit Wongsuwan has ordered related agencies to solve the flooding disaster in the southern region and prepare a mitigation plan for the expected drought disaster...
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Weekly Dry Season Situation Report in the Lower Mekong River Basin - Prepared on: 05/01/2021, covering the week from 29 December 2020 to 4 January 2021
1 Introduction This Weekly Dry Season Situation Report presents a preliminary analysis of the weekly hydrological situation in the Lower Mekong River Basin (LMB) for 29 December 2020 to 4 January...