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One attendee observed that, "In Thailand, we receive around 754,000 million m 3 of rain per year. That is more than enough for the annual water demand of around 100,000 million m 3.... However, only 5.7 percent of rainfall, 70,370 million m 3, empties into the reservoirs." Events. 1938 - Bangkok was flooded; 1983 - 42 provinces were flooded
Royal Rainmaking Project. The Thailand Royal Rainmaking Project ( Thai: โครงการฝนหลวง, RTGS : khrongkan fon luang) was initiated in November 1955 by King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Thai farmers repeatedly suffered the effects of drought. The king resolved to do something about it and proposed a solution to the dearth of rain ...
Bangkok has seen only brief and minor flooding since the major flood of 1995. Other regions, however, had experienced severe flooding as recently as 2010. Rainfall in March 2011 over the area of northern Thailand was an extraordinary 344 percent above the mean. Bhumibol Dam in particular received 242.8 mm of rain, well above the normal 25.2 mm ...
Location. Thailand and Malaysia. Deaths. 232 in Thailand; 4 in Malaysia. Property damage. At least US$1.676 billion [1] A series of flash floods hit different areas of Thailand and Malaysia in 2010. Separate but related floods began in the Northeast and Central Thailand (per the six-region definition) in early October due to abnormally late ...
April 26, 2024 at 8:13 AM. BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand called on Friday for the regional bloc ASEAN to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, after ...
April 28, 2024 at 9:30 AM. BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara has resigned, the government said on Sunday, after losing the position of deputy prime minister in a ...
53 [3] Property damage. At least $500 million (USD) [4] The 2011 Thai floods occurred at the end of March 2011, normally the latter part of the dry season ( Thai: ฤดูแล้ง, romanized : reutdu lang or หน้าแล้ง nah lang) in tropical Thailand. Heavy rain fell in the southern region, with over 120 centimetres (47 in) of ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai authorities have postponed until next month a hearing with influential former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on whether to indict him over a royal insult complaint ...