East Water helps divert water

Prapan Asawa-ari, president of the company, said in a statement released today that the company has transferred four submersible pumps to two water stations along the Bang Pakong river, to help the Royal Irrigation Department divert water out of the East of Bangkok. "The four pumps have combined capacity of 350,000 cubic meters a day," he said. "They should ready for operations in the next 1-2 days." The company's existing pumps are now diverting 250,000 cubic meters a day. "We are ready to lend our best efforts to this operations," Prapan said.