Five canals in Bangkok, with a total length of 15 km, have been selected to be developed for tourism and recreational use.

The project is part of a study by a committee dealing with the planning of budgets for maintenance and development of city canals. The five channels are selected from a total of 1.161 channels.

In some places, houses have been built illegally that have to be removed. In addition, households must stop discharging raw water and dump waste in the canals.

Power and other facilities also hinder passage. The committee will ask the municipal Waterworks Authority and Electricity Authority to do something about it.

Source: Bangkok Post

2 Responses to “Bangkok will develop existing channels for Tourism and Recreation”

  1. henry says up

    It is high time that these illegal structures were demolished. For they have turned many klongs into foul-smelling open sewers

  2. tom bang says up

    The rubbish in the canals is thrown in by everyone and the people who live there are tolerated because there is not enough affordable housing. If something is done about it, it will probably save half and the other half will come from people who do not live there illegally but cross the bridge and dump their rubbish.
    People who renovate also dump their waste along the canal and a lot of it falls in. Along the canal there are also collection points for rubbish that are cleared once every few days by municipal workers. Leaving together in a size like Bangkok, it will take a long time before everything is as clean as you are used to at home and if you can't stand it, you will go back anyway.


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