Handbooks to advise on water-saving, coping with drought
THE Education Ministry has produced 300,000 handbooks, which it will distribute to schools and community-learning centres in a bid to encourage water-saving, as the country is wracked by a serious drought crisis.
Kamjorn Tatiyakavee, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said on Thursday that the handbooks, written by the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education, provide information on how people can save water, and shows them how canals and wells can be dredged to boost water-retention capacity.
Apart from being a model for saving water, schools and vocational education officials visiting communities under the “Fix it Centre” scheme will also provide vocational training to farmers – who have run short of irrigation water – to earn extra income during the drought, he said.
Universities will also be asked to come up with long-term solutions to deal with the crisis, he added.
The ministry has asked 3,347 schools under the Office of Basic Education Commission to survey their wells to see if there is enough water for general usage, otherwise other measures such as dredging and filtering would be applied Kamjorn said.
So far, no school has reported of being seriously affected by the drought crisis, he said.
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