Long-term flood prevention system envisioned

 Following the Monday morning meeting with the private sector, including industrial estate operators today at the Stock Exchange of Thailand, he said "There would be a prevention system, to be designed by experts."
 Aside from short-term rehabilitation efforts including the facilitation in machinery imports, he said that a committee will be set up, to be represented by industrial estates, business operators, experts and government agencies. The committee will be tasked to devise a long-term prevention strategy.
 
"I can assure all that the government's rehabilitation efforst would face no obtascle, including the financial supports which could require tens of billion baht," he told the industrial estate operators.
 
To date, seven industrial estates have been inundated.  Kittiratt said that it should take 45 days to drain water out of the flooded industrial estates, from the day that the water level stabilises.