"We have department representatives working with KMITL team to monitor the structure over the waterway, which I have inspected. It is almost 80 per cent dead, because the heart of the river ecosystem on the riverbank has already been destroyed.However, a large structure over the river will further kill the river ecosystem and push it closer to a total ecologically dead river," Nonn said. The promenade would make water beneath it putrid because the slower river flow from the poles would trap garbage in the river.Due to the lack of sunshine, water quality would rapidly decrease and further destroy the river ecosystem. "I don't know why we have to build such a project over the river and make the river narrower. This is totally in conflict with the river development in other countries, which aim to make the river broader and return the good ecosystem to the river," he said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 25, 2016 17:15 UTC