Nong Bua Lamphu in desperate search for water
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The Nong Bua Lamphu waterworks office has found alternative supplies of raw water in response to a low tap-water supply.
Office manager Surachat Janthra yesterday said his office started to filter raw water from the Nong Bua pond at 2,600 cubic metres per day to combine with the pumping of water from two underground wells.
The move is to support the tap water demand of some 5,600 households in the Muang Nong Bua Lamphu Municipality.
Two other wells are there as back-up, Surachat said.
The area’s original water source is Tambon Nong Bua’s Huai Lao Yang Reservoir, which has a capacity of 2.2 million cubic metres.
Surachat said the reservoir had only a 10-day supply left.
In Nakhon Ratchasima’s Kham Thale Sor district, water trucks were dispatched yesterday to provide water for residents in four villages in Tambon Phan Dung who had reportedly lived without tap water for almost a month.
