Thai officials face crisis in solving water shortage
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17/01/1999
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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.