Pit creator in Pattaya
Fortunately, it never happened to me, but the story goes that in the past, students who did not do their best at school were sometimes told that they were doomed to a career as a well-creator. In earlier times, a well scooper was the name for the person who emptied cesspools.
Nature in Pattaya strikes back
A remarkable event took place this week, at the end of August. Due to the fierce wind and waves, the water hit the beach further than usual and also carried sand. This created a small sand wall so that the water could not flow back to the sea. However, this "water" was black and murky as if the sea was showing that it no longer wanted this junk and was returning it.
Ask general practitioner Maarten: Can you get sick by breathing in the sewage air, an update
Since last Friday I'm staying in the hospital because of a severe lung infection due to… sewage gas. Given the diversity of “sewage bacteria” in my lungs, I have to stay here for at least another 10 days, the first group of bacteria has disappeared, so that the intense fever that is difficult to combat with paracetamol is now also gone.
Does the sewage system in Pattaya still drain to the sea?
I know that a few years ago the sewage system of Pattaya was simply discharged into the sea. Is that still the case or has the situation improved? I don't feel like swimming there in the sea among the turds.
Water purification in Walking Street
It is actually too sad for words that only now, after all these years, the sewage drainage of the Walking Street is discussed. We cannot offer the seaside resort of Pattaya to tourists in a cleaner way. The nightlife takes place in Walking Street and then it goes unnoticed, the entrepreneurs apparently thought.
Englishman rescued after fall in open sewer hole
An unnamed Englishman had to be rescued after falling into an open sewer hole in northern Metropolitan Bangkok this week. He had sunk to his chest in the sewage sludge at a depth of three meters, where rescuers fished him out. The rescue did result in some cuts and bruises, for which he was treated at a local hospital.