Thailand is partly to blame for the flooding

The Netherlands is about 2/3 below sea level. And here constructions are not always well thought out. It would also help a lot if measures were taken in the period outside the rainy season before the next rainy season starts: ie dredging channels, etc., in the dry season, etc.
The only problem is that there is no rain in the dry period, so there is no (flooding) problem. Then why bother about that?

Of course, the extreme weather of recent years is also responsible for the many floods, but the well-known proverb: "When the calf has drowned, fill the well" is clearly a contributing cause of this misery in Thailand. As Hans Bos himself Although it is written that they will clean the ditches AFTER the rainy season, but of course the mentality of the Thai people does absolutely no good to the nuisance of the many floods. Just take a look after a downpour at the street gullies that are between the road and the sidewalk They are full of plastic and tempex food containers. Don't immediately shout that the containers and plastic should be banned, but try to first make people understand that something like this does not belong in the sewer but in the wheelie bin. I recently came across past a hardware store where they had put a few loads of sand in bags that people could then buy for 40 Baht, the remaining sand was not swept up but injected into the sewer with a large jet of water. Everyone has also seen that as the mobile snack bar is ready for that day when the remaining dark black grease is simply dumped into the sewer. Good luck with combating the floods, but it will take centuries if everything stays like this.

Long ago, the Dutch government offered to help with water management. The Netherlands, the outspoken country in water management. Thailand has refused this. “We can handle it, we will solve it ourselves” See what became of it.