Between floods and dust, we never get a breakLast week, when Bangkok commuters were stuck in the usual nightmare of paralysed traffic, Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang was already warning us to get prepared for the impending annual PM2.5 pollution. I remember how cartoons in a local newspaper teased Admiral Thiam Makaranon, then Bangkok governor, about the floods during the rainy season in the early 1980s. About 14 billion baht was allocated to build water tunnels and another 791 million baht to dredge waterways across the city. Some 6.16 billion baht will go to the Department of Drainage and Sewerage for flood-mitigation projects. This fiscal year, the Department of Public Works has been awarded 7.8 billion baht.

Source: Bangkok Post October 07, 2020 22:52 UTC