Thai officials face crisis in solving water shortage

  • 17/01/1999

  • Asian Wall Street Journal (Hong Kong)

Thailand is facing a water shortage and no one can agree on what to do about it. Unusally low rainfall in the last May-to-November rainy season left the water level in reservoirs around the country at barely half what they were a year ago. They are the lowest levels for more than five years, according to Royal Irrigation Department figures.