Making rain in Thailand
Despite the Songkran festival last year, the consequences of El Nino appear to be stronger. Thailand is increasingly suffering from the drought. In total this would cover a period of 7 years, but now the high or rather low point would have been reached.
Artifacts are used to get rain anyway. The Dutchman August Veraart (1881 – 1947) was the first to conduct experiments to generate rain. Nowadays, huge amounts of crystals of silver iodide are used to “spray” the clouds with airplanes. The small water droplets, which make up a cloud, settle on the crystals and then come down as precipitation. This technique is used by the Department of Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation in the NE of Thailand to refill the reservoirs.
Where the drought is very critical, such as at the Ubonrat Dam in Khon Kaen and the Lam Takhong Dam in Nakhon Ratchasma, this "rain" has brought some relief. Satisfactory results were also achieved around the Pa Sak Jolasid Dam and in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
The army has been deployed to provide water to certain areas. Perhaps these emergency measures would have been less necessary if measures had already been taken in time, 4 years ago. At that time, the drought period of 7 years had already been announced and water management could have managed the water quantity better and with policy.
I'm not an expert on this, but all those coastal areas, can't a few desalination plants for sea water be built there, if only to provide sanitary water? Could already be part of the solution.
Can they go further with 7 days of Songkran opposite the capital Bangkok 3 days ….
Furthermore, we always compare the condos in Pattaya with Western ones, but where in our region is water supplied with tank trucks instead of… tap water?
However, those desalination plants cost quite a lot, with the result that even the Israelis prefer to get water from Turkey by tanker. So if you have no problem with about 500 THB per liter of water… you can splash around.
When it rains, they drain all that water to the sea as quickly as possible.
If it becomes dry afterwards, there is no water supply.
The only way to solve the problem is to have more water storage space.
As China draws more and more water from its rivers, the drought problem will only get worse.
Hi,
The problem with water collection is also looming , storage basins of a maximum depth of 1.5 meters are being made nearby , which means that the surface area is much larger than the volume , resulting in too much evaporation .
If only people were a bit smarter, they made a reasonable depth of about 10 meters in such a way that the volume becomes larger, the temperature more constant and since the temperature is lower less evaporation, but yes, is all this the intention or is there more to it? I personally think that the big money, say the elite in Bangkok, is not interested in the Thai farmers and offers them a sham solution that is not too expensive and does get them votes. If you keep the majority of the people poor and give just enough in order to eat and survive, as a rich person, you secure your power.
Greetings
ronny