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The rising danger of urban floods

By Asia Sentinel Wed, Feb 15, 2012 6:11PM UTC View Comments

World Bank says it will probably get worse, reports Asia Sentinel Several decades ago, Keyes Beech, an American journalist based in Bangkok, famously had the legs of his grand piano stuck into two sets of Wellington boots, so that when the water rose inevitably in his house, the rubber footwear protected his piano. The water...

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Did Thai Irrigation Department mismanage discharge of water from the dams?

By Bangkok Pundit Thu, Dec 01, 2011 10:00AM UTC View Comments

BP has already blogged on the statement by Dr. Smith that the Irrigation Department should have released water earlier in the rainy season – see here and here – and then the level of water in the dams, water flowing into the dams, and discharge of water from the Sirkit and Bhumipol Dams. However, what...

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Thailand says capital flood threat may ease soon

By AP News Mon, Oct 24, 2011 12:22AM UTC View Comments

BANGKOK (AP) — The threat that floodwaters will inundate Thailand’s capital could ease by early November as record-high levels in the river carrying torrents of water downstream from the country’s north begin to decline, authorities said Sunday. Bangkok’s immediate prospects remain uncertain, however, as the front lines in battling the flood draw tighter around the...

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Thailand leader says floods may last 6 more weeks

By AP News Sat, Oct 22, 2011 10:15PM UTC View Comments

Thai Buddhist monks carry sandbags to fortify their barriers from rising floodwaters at the Weeru Wanaram temple at Don Muang District, in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011. Pic:AP

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s catastrophic floods may take up to six weeks to recede, the prime minister said Saturday, as the human toll from the crisis rose to 356 dead and more than 110,000 displaced. Excessive monsoon rains have drowned a third of the Southeast Asian nation since late July, causing billions of dollars in...

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Odisha floods: Dams retained water to serve industry during dry months

By Subir Ghosh Tue, Sep 27, 2011 4:22PM UTC View Comments

This time the crops could not withstand even three days of floods. Photo: Amitabh Patra

Could the floods in Odisha that are still raging across the state been avoided? A team of journalists and social workers who toured around the Hirakud dam area argue that it certainly could have been. The floods in the region are being described as “man-made”. Far from controlling the floods, dams have only aggravated the...

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