Water crisis for Chaiyaphum’s Nong Bua Daeng district
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The municipality chief and residents of Nong Bua Daeng in Chaiyaphum marched on Thursday to warn people to save tap water as raw water is running out in the district, Mayor Chartchai Dankul warned residents that raw water from two reservoirs in the district would be available for only 60 more days.
Chartchai called on the government and the National Council for Peace and Order to speed up the approval of a dam on Lam Saphung River in Tambon Nong Bua Daeng.
Chartchait said the dam’s construction had been halted because of environmental concerns as part of the reservoir would be located in forest areas.
Prapoj Solosjinda, chief of the Nong Bua Daeng Tap Water Office, said his office did not know where it would get raw water from serve some 9,500 residents of the district if the water ran out.
He said water in a weir, which could hold 700,000 cubic metres, was down to 15,000 cubic metres while there was 65,000 cubic metres in the reserve reservoir.
