TNA
All six member countries of the Mekong River Commission `MRC` will meet in Laos late next month and Thailand may ask China to provide warnings of the timing and volume of water to be released from its upstream dams as several areas in Thailand and the rest of members of the agency are now battered by severe flooding, a senior Thai official said Wednesday.
Thai Deputy Interior Minister Prasong Kositanond said concerned officials are now studying details of the flooding which has affected Thailand's northern and northeastern provinces during the past few weeks and may ask for improved cooperation from China to send the warning and volume of water to be discharged from its dams.
Without cooperation from China, Thailand's at-risk northeastern provinces of Nong Khai and Nakhon Phanom provinces bordering Laos would face fiercer floods, said Mr. Prasong.
The three Indochina countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, plus Myanmar and China are dialogue partners with Thailand. They are scheduled to meet in the Laotian capital of Vientiane September 25-26.
Thailand's total damage in seven Thai provinces are now estimated at Bt220 million, he said. Officials of the Interior Ministry's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department have been sent to those provinces to assist the flood victims, except in rugged terrain.
Governors of the flood-hit provinces are allowed to disburse Bt50 million from emergency fund to initially help the victims.
Meanwhile, Burachat Buasuwan, the MRC's Thailand coordinator, said at a seminar that the agency's officials last week inspected flooding situation in five northern and northeastern provinces and believed that the waters which overflowed the Mekong river banks was due to heavy rainfall resulting from a low pressure and tropical storm that originated off southern China.
Mr. Burachat said if the flooding was caused by water released from dams in China, it would not recede very quickly.
However, Mr. Burachat said Chinese officials only provided information on water discharged from dams in the rainy season and not during the dry season.
In the past, the MRC officials had requested information from Chinese officials, but it was not forthcoming, Mr. Burachat added, it would be better if the request is made through the governments of the two countries.
Thai Deputy Interior Minister Prasong Kositanond said concerned officials are now studying details of the flooding which has affected Thailand's northern and northeastern provinces during the past few weeks and may ask for improved cooperation from China to send the warning and volume of water to be discharged from its dams.
Without cooperation from China, Thailand's at-risk northeastern provinces of Nong Khai and Nakhon Phanom provinces bordering Laos would face fiercer floods, said Mr. Prasong.
The three Indochina countries of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, plus Myanmar and China are dialogue partners with Thailand. They are scheduled to meet in the Laotian capital of Vientiane September 25-26.
Thailand's total damage in seven Thai provinces are now estimated at Bt220 million, he said. Officials of the Interior Ministry's Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department have been sent to those provinces to assist the flood victims, except in rugged terrain.
Governors of the flood-hit provinces are allowed to disburse Bt50 million from emergency fund to initially help the victims.
Meanwhile, Burachat Buasuwan, the MRC's Thailand coordinator, said at a seminar that the agency's officials last week inspected flooding situation in five northern and northeastern provinces and believed that the waters which overflowed the Mekong river banks was due to heavy rainfall resulting from a low pressure and tropical storm that originated off southern China.
Mr. Burachat said if the flooding was caused by water released from dams in China, it would not recede very quickly.
However, Mr. Burachat said Chinese officials only provided information on water discharged from dams in the rainy season and not during the dry season.
In the past, the MRC officials had requested information from Chinese officials, but it was not forthcoming, Mr. Burachat added, it would be better if the request is made through the governments of the two countries.
2 comments:
You invade our territory and now you ask us to help you talk to China.
LOL.
11:06
Very stupid. Who are you? Dumbass oversae?
This is not politics. Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam are now suffered by severe Mekong flooding.
FUCK!
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