"The water management policy should come from the independent agency, not the law of a single department under ministerial control. This is why we should have a central law to regulate the water management as a whole. "We had numerous agencies looking after water issues, but all of these agencies do not synchronise their works and they make the water management as a whole inefficient. "Lersak Rewtarkulpaiboon of the Royal Rainmaking and Agricultural Aviation Department also said that the new department's policy for water management was out of date. "A good water management |policy should be bottom-up, because the water situation is diverse between each water basin, thus it needs |different policies," he said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 07, 2016 18:00 UTC