Phuket is heading for a full-blown ecological crisis due to the discharge of raw water into the sea. This warning comes from Dean Thorn Thamrongnaswasdi, of Kasetsart University. Also a well-known marine scientist and environmental activist.
Phuket discharges an average of 180.000 cubic meters of waste water into the sea every day. The capacity of the purification facilities is only 55.000 cubic meters per day. The remaining untreated and polluted water up to 125.000 cubic meters is dumped directly into the sea. This is separate from all the thousands of launderettes that are in use. In addition, extra waste water comes from the famous seaside resort on Phuket.
He called on the companies to check how much polluted water they discharge per day and also to check the functioning of the four existing treatment plants and whether the full capacity is being used.
Apart from the fact that nature and the sea near Phuket are in danger of becoming seriously polluted, this will undoubtedly also have an impact on tourism, on which Phuket depends. Elsewhere in Thailand people are already complaining about the pollution of the sea and it would be sad if Phuket will also be avoided for this reason.
Source: Thai PBS
Phuket is already completely polluted.
A long time ago I experienced Patong Beach as a snow-white beach, with white sea crabs that dug themselves into the sand.
Then the foreigners who earned their living there said that the drainage pipe of the sewer came too close to the beach in the sea.
The sea water was still clear then.
The only things swimming around in the sea of Patong Beach are turds, plastic bags and other garbage.
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And tourists, of course, who don't realize what those floating brown balls in the sea water are.
The water in Patong sometimes looks brown from the beach... and in Kamala the water sometimes has a kind of chemical smell. It has gotten to the point that when I go swimming I first look at what the water looks like. I hardly snorkel anymore. The fish have been missing for years, except for a few coral fish and the new construction on the coast discharges their water directly into the sea. There are still swimmers barely 100 meters from a sewer, a small black river. More and more tourists are coming and leaving a dump of cigarette butts, plastic, glass and so on. They can no longer cope with this, at least not in the first few years. The most beautiful beaches in Phuket have become private or paying, 500 bath for some. It really doesn't look good.
Phuket has actually become too touristy, add the budget tourists from China, Russia, India and from the sandbox who often spend almost nothing and count your profit. Overcrowded beaches that no luxury tourist will soon want to visit, because that picture is not that beautiful when there are as many people as on Scheveningen on a day of 30 degrees. And the worst part is that many other Thai islands are heading in the same direction.
First time Thailand 1989, when ko toa waaauw clear the sea was full of fish. Last time 2013 really full of plastic. Koh Lanta 2010 idem. Phuket stinks 2015. 1989 also the beautiful ko pay y am at Rangoon north west coast, snorkelling literally full of many kinds of fish. Last time 2012 EMPTY just empty, well empty full of plastic I mean. 2014 ko Chang collected half a garbage bag of plastic on a large 3 bay resort 100 meters. Have stopped visiting the islands. In the meantime I think Bangkok is the cleanest / cleanest place in Thailand, can you imagine. Oh yes, rather go to Isaan now, I feel more at home there now, reminds me of my first time in Thailand.
And today there is also the message from Thaivisa from Professor Thon Thamrongnawasawat, vice dean of the fisheries faculty of Kasetsart University, on Sunday.
Following the death of 2 young whales in 70 days, which did not die of natural causes.
Both in the Gulf of Thailand.
It is going well, many people no longer dare to eat fish from the sea that comes from Thailand.
Fortunately, there are still fine and wonderful places to stay, and the Thai are starting to learn that there are limits to pollution!